How-To: Crocheted Hexagon Market Bag
Hit the farmer’s market in style this summer with a cute crocheted hexagon market bag!
Year: 2013
A Boy and His Atom: The World’s Smallest Movie
The world’s smallest movie was produced by a team of IBM nanophysicists. The animation is made from 242 stop-frames, and is 60 seconds long, with each frame measuring 1/20,000th the width of a human hair!
Ruggedized Rainbow Box
Nick Poole, a technologist for SparkFun Electronics, built this beautiful Arduino-powered rainbow box: Recently, I had the opportunity to see Phil Lapsley talk about his book “Exploding the Phone,” a history of phone phreaking. When I found out that he was coming to give the talk, I was reminded of a project that I had […]
How-To: Backstitch Embroidery Stitch
Since we’ve been already been talking about cross-stitch today, now’s an excellent time for a quick refresher on backstitch!
First to File? Nah, First to Blog!
Like most people out there, I sometimes have more ideas than time to implement them. So instead of keeping those ideas locked in a notebook somewhere unaccessible and not serving a purpose, I’m going to release them into the world as public domain in the hope that they might inspire, or at a very minimum keep an idea from being patented. You can do whatever you like with these, except for attempting to patent them yourself. It is my sincere hope that by releasing these ideas, more awesomeness and excellence will be brought into being.
Charge Your Smartphone–With Fire!
If fire wasn’t the first thing invented, it was probably the second. The human race has had a long relationship with fire, and now you can use it to charge your smartphone, GPS, or anything else that you can connect to this thermoelectric generator using a USB cable.
How-To: Make A Realistic Cloud Sculpture
Serena of The Farm Chicks put together a great to tutorial on making super realistic-looking cloud sculptures from stuff you might have around the house.