I know Halloween is behind us, but there have been some great costumes shared in the craft blogosphere this week that are worth featuring. When Melissa of Checkout Girl posted a sneak peek at the Fantastic Mr. Fox costumes she created for her daughter and her friend, I flipped out and couldn’t wait to see […]
Fascinating video from Nyle Steiner, who reports on his experiments with simple homemade memristors made from what are, probably, Al-CuS-Cu and Al-PbS-Pb junctions. He describes the observations that led him to experiment with these systems and the results of his experiments, and then wraps up by drawing out a simple memristor demonstration circuit and demonstrating its operation on-camera.
Dutch artist Purr Anders creates lovely leaf and flower-shaped brooches by printing antique photos onto fabric. She brings imperfect and complex elements from nature into her art, which really complements the beauty of the photographs, which, themselves, can be somewhat imperfect and worn. Her leaf projects also bring to mind the familiar imagery of a […]
Terence on Ikea Hacker used “spare parts” from his Utby table legs to make an uber-industrial tape dispenser and paperclip holder. The two hacks here are a tape dispenser and a paper clip dispenser. With the spare parts from the Utby stainless steel legs I made the tape dispenser with nuts, bolts, and a roll […]
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Our friends over at Lion Brand Yarn have a new crochet along starting up this week. Dora Ohrenstein designed this half medallion bag and will be hosting the crochet along on the Lion Brand web site. For this Half Medallion Bag, I wanted to create a three dimensional effect that radiates out from a center […]
The new UartSBee V3.1 from the Maker Shed is a dual use Xbee adapter / FTDI programmer. The USB port allows you to hook XBee modules up to your computer for programming and wireless linking. It’s like a little Swiss Army knife for Xbees and programming.
