Upcycled Doily Pendant Light
This upcycled pendant light is a really lovely way to use those vintage doilies you have passed down from your grandmother.
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News From The Future: Laser Enriched Uranium – Cheaper, Better, Smaller And Portable?
…Scientists have long sought easier ways to make the costly material known as enriched uranium — the fuel of nuclear reactors and bombs, now produced only in giant industrial plants.
Lightpack, a Content-Driven Ambient Lighting System for Displays
Atarity from Izhevsk in the Russian Federation wrote in to share his project, Lightpack, a LED-managing board that plugs into a display and changes the RGB levels depending on what is displayed on the screen.
How-To: Know It All Bag That Shows Your Knitting Pattern
This brilliant bag from Kalani Craig for Knitty kind of blows my mind. It’s bag that uses LEDs and a Lilypad Arduino to display stitches of a knitting pattern. The video above explains it well, and shows how the different blinking LEDs stand for different types of stitches. Yep, this bag knows everything. It knows […]
Zero to Maker: Access to Tools
I was about five pages in when I discovered a major obstacle: I didn’t have any of the tools the book required to do the suggested projects and experiments. I realized that despite my commitment to learning and my eagerness to get started, my goal of going from Zero to Maker would be impossible if I didn’t have the right tools.
How-To: Mod Tank Blouse
Erica Domesek of P.S. I Made This… wants to bring a little mod into your life. Check out her Mod Tank Blouse tutorial, and add some bold colors, big buttons, and stylish Mondrian grid patterns to your wardrobe! Now, do you think this means that Twiggy eyes are coming back too? I hope so!
The Krunk Bunk (Micro Sleep-Loft) – Tiny Yellow House
Here’s another video of one of the many projects I’ve been messing with lately, its a legless bunk set-up called “The Krunk Bunk” that was one of two projects we took on in our Relax Shacks July Tiny Housing/Shelter/Building workshop in MA.