Amigurumi Chairry
GEEZ! Crafty is Cool’s Allison Hoffman never fails to amaze me with her amigurumi creations! Imagine how excited I was when I saw her pint-size version of Chairry on Pee-Wee Herman’s own Facebook page!
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Maker Faire Bazaar Bizarre Crafters: Art/Design
Today we continue our sneak preview of the fabulous folks coming to Maker Faire to participate in the Bazaar Bizarre. Here’s a roundup of artists and designers you can meet this weekend.
News from the Future – Tiny Turbines Spin Up In Human Arteries
Swiss Scientists Design a Turbine to Fit in Human Arteries @ IEEE Spectrum via jwz. Coaches admire athletes for showing a lot of heart, and poets praise the organ’s passions, but engineers see the human cardiovascular system otherwise. The heart is a pump in a prime location, brimming with energy for the taking, says mechanical […]
GGHC Finalist Profile — Build Brighton
Our coverage of element14’s Great Global Hackerspace Challenge continues with a profile of BuildBrighton and their fabulous Phonicubes project.
Phonicubes is a super nerdy way of teaching kids to read using the Phonics system. It uses an Arduino Duemilanove, a protoshield, a custom wave shield, and an ID-2 RFID module for a total cost of £81, well under the team’s US$900 budget.
Taco Truck Chorizo Sopito
Anything “taco truck” grabs my attention these days. We have a great taco truck here in Detroit, Jacques’ Tacos, that I try to stop by on Saturday afternoons. Just to the south of me in Columbus, Rachel Tayse, of Hounds in the Kitchen, recreated a recipe for one of her favorite taco truck creations from […]
“Sous Vide” Cooking: The Basics
“Sous-vide” is fashionable French for a method of cooking that involves longer cooking times at lower temperatures and reduced atmospheric pressures. It means, literally, “under vacuum.” Commonly, food is sealed in plastic vacuum bags and cooked at temperatures well below the boiling point of water for dozens of hours, although the particular parameters vary widely with the food to be cooked. The point, really, is that the equipment involved is capable of finer automated control of those parameters than your conventional range, oven, and/or microwave, and the quality and flavor of the natural ingredients can be vastly improved—without sacrificing safety—by using it.
Gigantic DIY Ultra-large Format Film Camera
Searching for a way to enlarge some 8″x10″ prints without going digital, photographer (and close friend) Darren Samuelson decided to forego using an enlarger and instead built a gigantic ultra-large format camera capable of taking pictures on 14″x36″ X-Ray film. Taking over six months to complete, when fully extended the enormous hand-made bellows camera is […]