How-To: Space Invaders Photo Flash Stencils
Ready to make your photography extra-geeky? Create your own Space Invaders-inspired photo flash stencil with this fun tutorial!
Month: March 2013
How-To: Recycled Lightbulb Centerpiece
Love DIY home decor? Check out this cool battery powered recycled lightbulb centerpiece!
Images From the 7th NY Hardware Startup Meetup
The 7th NY Hardware Startup Meetup was held at Alley NYC, which describes their co-working space as a “safe haven for all things awesome.” At the beginning an upcoming event for homemade PCBs was announced and interest from the crowd was extremely high. The meetup provided a platform for makers of MyBell, Heart Matrix, and the Bike Computer to solicit public votes in the final hours of New York’s Next Top Makers competition. Voting ends in just a few hours, so if you have a moment you can vote for as many projects as you want. More than 100 people attended, including hardware manufacturers, technology reporters, and makers seeking collaboration on upcoming projects.
Lego Mindstorms Lathe
Arthur Sacek‘s lathe works on floral foam. A project he has been working on since 2005, Arthur recently rebuilt the lathe using the still-robust RCX microcontroller brick, the precursor to the soon-to-be-replaced NXT brick. [via The NXT Step]
How-To: Cadbury Irish Creme Eggs
Victoria Belanger of The Jell-o Mold Mistress concocted some amazing-looking Cadbury Irish Creme Egg Jello Shots and posted the recipe for anyone who’d like to give ’em a try.
The Lost Art of Aztec Prismatic Blades
Start talking about flintknapping, and most people probably think of arrowheads or other projectile points. Though made using essentially the same fundamental techniques, a “prismatic blade” is a very different animal. In the archaeological record, prismatic blades appear as long, thin flakes of stone, usually having two parallel cutting edges and a trapezoidal or triangular cross-section. A few modern flintknappers make prismatic blades, but the leading light (online, at least) is probably Californian Jim Winn, aka paleomanjim.
Chatting with 7 Ladies of Maker Faire
With this year’s Maker Faire Bay Area coming up on May 18 and 19 in San Mateo, I was looking over my interview lists from years past and was struck by these seven cool ladies I had interviewed, with diverse maker interests ranging from restoring Fieros to building musical instruments to making Arduino-powered cat feeders.
