One of my favorite crafty publishers, Chronicle Books, recently launched a monthly curation of discounted ebooks, called Chronicle Eye Candy. The theme month of September is made for us — it’s Craft Month! They’re offering nine crafty ebook titles at a deep discount. Also: enter for a chance to win a $200 crafter’s dream library!
College hacking marathons, or hackathons as they’re known to most college students, are something every college student should experience at least once. Hackathons are really awesome ways for you to just get into the zone and just “hack” for about two days straight, more or less. While it wasn’t immediately clear to me what it took to throw together a hackathon, an event and a summer of preparation later, I think I’m getting a better idea.
For those of you who are contemplating or in the process of hosting your own Hackathon at your campus, here are just a couple of concepts I think you should keep in mind.
NASA engineer Mark Rober put together an amazingly simple watermelon smoothie hack from just a coat hanger and an electric drill with some impressive results!
Thanks to the well-timed combination of my recent English Paper Piecing obsession and some necessary mending, I’ve definitely been feeling the love for the nearly-invisible ladder stitch.
Give your National Sewing Month projects a professional-looking finish with this invisible zipper tutorial!
Taj Singh has built an electronics Scrabble tile dispenser based on a PIC 16F628 microcontroller and a stepper motor.
Arduino’s upcoming board, the Yún, is like an Arduino Leonardo and a Linux-based WiFi router packed onto one board.
