This cute crochet yeti hat, designed by Cheryl Cambras for Vickie Howell’s Sheep(ish), is meant for a toddler, but I kind of want one in my size. Get the pattern over on Vickie’s web site. More: Knit And Crochet Yeti Baby Booties Yeti Sighting Berroco Baby Yeti Pattern Papercraft Chibi Yeti Download Yeti Embroidery
Today I’m thinking about my older sister, an electrical engineer and all-around brilliant person who influenced me hugely growing up. I owe a lot of my geeky interests to her. So, sis, happy Ada Lovelace Day! Who is your heroine? Do you remember which women have influenced you over the years? Perhaps your maths teacher, […]
The deadline to turn in solutions for Volume 27’s MakeShift challenge is in three weeks! Put on your thinking caps. You need to figure out a way to provide safe drinking water for your family after an accident at the nuclear power plant upstream from you.
Thingiverse user Thing-o-Fun from Austin, TX, designed this printable, fully functional padlock. (A)ll items are printable except for the springs which I removed from ball-point click pens (thankfully my wife is still putting up with disassembled pens around the house). This one is a little more complicated but it still works and makes a good […]
Fabienne made this stunning Algorithmically Morhping Scarf, based on software by Laura Kogler, on her hacked Brother KH930 Electronic Knitting Machine! Fresh off the knitting machine is this algorithmically morphing scarf with a pattern that changes by one pixel in each repeat. The software was made by Laura Kogler and used by me with the […]
Long-time MAKE reader Adam Ben-Dror carefully reskinned a 2.4 Ghz cordless phone handset with a 90-year-old candlestick telephone. A DTMF converter in the base preserves the function of the original rotary dial. Calls are begun by lifting the earpiece and ended by hanging it up. As Adam writes, “the only sign that anything has been altered is the missing cord.”
When I posted about stitchable iPhone cases back in July, folks went nuts (rightly so) and clamored to get them from a Japanese supplier. Thanks to those who originally ordered them from abroad and reported back here. If you weren’t able to get one, The Purl Bee is now stocking them. Flickr user, poppet with […]
