Crochet Gallbladder With Removable Gallstones
Gallbladder got ya down? I love this crochet gallbladder, complete with removable gallstones, from Etsy seller AnOptimisticCynic. [via KnitHacker]
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How-To: Pop Top Lampshade
I am officially regretting every can I have sent to the recycling center without first removing its pop top – because I want to make this gorgeous lamp shade! The design is by MAKE’s own Sean Michael Ragan, and he’s just uploaded the how-to over on Make: Projects. Pop over there and you can view […]
Dog-Mounted Persistence of Vision Display
Michael Zoellner of Elangen, Germany, wrote in with a fun POV he created: Mounting 5 LEDs on a moving object creates one of the cheapest and largest displays: Persistence of Vision. It’s been done on bicycle wheels, fans and other rotating objects. In this project i am sewing a Lilypad wearable Arduino board and five […]
Engineer Guy on Cell Phone Design
Bill Hammack’s video this week explains the constraints that govern the engineering of cell phones, and how and why the development of key technologies has changed the way cell phones look and function. He also shows off the 8pen gestural keyboard app installed on his Android, which I immediately had to download and try for myself. Thanks, Bill, as always!
Five Things to Set up Your Home Photography Studio
Photojojo has a great, concise list of the five things you need to set up a home photography studio. If you just want some great-looking product shots for your Etsy shop, or tutorial photos for that Instructable you’re writing, you only need a simple home studio.
Hands-on Learning with The SenseBoard Ubiquitous Computing Device
The UK’s Open University is starting a new course called TU100 My Digital Life based around the SenseBoard ubiquitous computing device and Sense programming environment, a derivative of the Scratch programming language developed at MIT Media Lab. [via /.]
Making a Blade Out of Homemade Steel
This six part epic follows knife maker Jesus Hernandez as he builds a pair of Japanese tanto knives from homemade steel. He begins with building a smelter to produce steel from ore and progresses through to the process of folding and forming the blades into an elegant pair of traditional weapons. Each step is documented […]