Shisha stitching and temari are two crafts I find beautiful and exotic and just a tiny bit daunting. Thanks to some very thorough and well done tutorials from Pam at Gingerbread Snowflakes, though, I’m thinking now more than ever is the holiday season to try my hand at these skills. That she’s combined them in […]
A group of students competing in PennApps Data Hackathon created a microwave which plays a popular YouTube video that is the length of the time you’ve entered for your food to heat up. They call it the μWave and their hack won them first prize in the competition. Not only does the microwave entertain you while your left over chicken fried rice is reheating, but it also texts you when your food is done and tweets about when you use it. They used an Arduino to read the amount of time on the microwave’s 7-segment display and to communicate that information to a web server with Ruby on Rails.
I adore the simple elegance of this hand-drawn gift wrap from Mini Eco. Using a silver paint pen to draw on brown packing paper looks great, and it would be a fun way to personalize gifts for any occasion!
Metro Diverse Services is a 3-person team specializing in unique fabrication projects for monumental art and architectural and landscape decoration. They were one of two mechanical spiders featured at this year’s Vancouver Mini Maker Faire in June, the other being the Mondo Spider, built by eatART Foundation.
We’re getting a bit of autumn rain today, which must be what led me to find this copper rain chain. Instructables member Tool Using Animal has a nice tutorial for making your own using copper tubing to form the rings of the chain. In Japan, rain chains (kusari doi) are a common alternative to a […]
Typography signage adds a classic aesthetic to your home and Curbly offers a cool modern spin with this ampersand.
Jessica of geekcr3d takes the iconic hand turkey to a whole new level with this LED hand turkey sweater. As a kid, I loved making decorations for the Thanksgiving table. I thought whoever came up with the idea that your hand could be traced and transformed into a turkey was a genius. I made hand […]
