Colorful bunting always makes me smile, and this cute bunting cosmetic bag tutorial from Suzanne at Just Another Hang Up is the perfect project for using up some of your cutest fabric scraps. I’m an especially big fan of her simple flag bunting appliqué method—it’s incredibly easy to sew, but it looks fantastic! [Via How […]
Remember that awesome crochet wreath I featured last week? Lisa from Good Knits is back with a smaller version that’s perfect for making ornaments. I’d love seeing a tree full of these in bright colors, wouldn’t you?
Digital Meets Physical will bring makers, software hackers, and DIY geeks together for two days of outrageous fun, using the Netduino platform and other fun toys to build our brains out. We’ll be hacking at the AS220 Labs, a hackerspace where tools, technology and inspiration abound. With no less than 10 top quality watering holes within spitting distance, power breaks and refueling will be top notch.
Three-jaw chucks, of the same general type used to hold bits in most power drills, are also common equipment on metalworking lathes. Though it is not necessarily so, three-jaw chucks are so commonly of the self-centering variety, in which the jaws are not independently adjustable, that “self-centering” is generally assumed from the term “three-jaw chuck.” But…
Use this simple technique to paint letters like a pro.
David Bourell of UT Texas describes how laser sintering works. This method of 3D printing uses a laser that fuses plastic powder, building up layer by layer somewhat same way as filament-based 3D printers do. [Via @cenmag]
Our favorite cross-stitching couple, Steotch, is back with a rad new sampler that will have sci-fi fans all kinds of giddy. Behold, the BSG sampler! [via @bonniegrrl]
