How-To: Transfer an Embroidery Pattern onto Any Fabric
If you’re itching to stitch but have trouble getting your designs to show up where you want them, you’ll definitely want to check out this ingenious tutorial from Mollie at Wild Olive!
Year: 2013
How-To: DIY Water-Dispensing Pet Bowl
Instructables user Jim Tiffin Jr shared this ingenious DIY water-dispensing pet bowl created by his 11-year old daughter.
Help Crowdfund an Electronics Reference PCB
This is neat. It’s a credit-card sized printed circuit board (PCB) designed by former MIT hacker Star Simpson for Octopart, the online search engine for electronic parts.
A Better World By Design Returns to Providence Sept. 27
Entering its 6th year, A Better World By Design is returning to the RISD and Brown Campuses in Providence, RI from September 27-29 (the week after World Maker Faire New York). A Better World By Design was founded by–and is run to this day by–Brown and RISD students.
Making Education Work
Imagine shop class and recess had a love child – that’s the maker movement. How does this relate to the current state of our education system, or for that matter, the the film “The Breakfast Club”?
Passive Energy Harvesting—”Run, Don’t Walk!”
Passive energy harvesting is an idea whose time may have arrived. With the increasing number of deployments of sensors to measure the environment both inside and outside buildings, as well as larger-scale “smart city” programmes, power is starting to be needed in the strangest of places.
Makeblock Rocks a Robot Set
Shenzhen startup Makeblock makes and sells aluminum building sets for building everything from music robots to plotters.
