On Wednesday 4/25 we will have another “MAKE night” at our offices @ Etsy in Brooklyn, NY! Join us (MAKE/CRAFT) Etsy, Peter Kirn (Create Digital Music) Instructables, Popular Science and more for a night of paper projects! You can bring any project you want, but paper is our theme. As always, it’s show and tell […]
Christy from Instructables sent us all the deets on movies night if you’re in the Bay Area! She writes – We’re hosting Nerd Pride Movie Night here at Instructables HQ at 8pm Friday the 20th of April. First movie: Real Genius starring a young Val Kilmer. A fabulous nerd comedy classic from 1985- see it […]
PlotKit is a slick javascript library that allows you to easily generate line, bar, and pie charts with a few lines of javascript code. It supports rendering to both Canvas and SVG, so you can use it to add charting to your application and still be able to support a fair amount of browsers. I’m […]
Here’s how to organize a collection of things using Flickr, in this example an impressive 20 year collection of superballs. Lenore writes – Flickr is a great tool for organizing a collection. You can upload your photos and apply titles, tags and descriptions, which is a sneaky way of cramming a lot of indexed data […]
Ben Heck shows you how to make an Xbox 360, he writes – The making-of How-To for the Xbox 360 laptop will be in three parts. In today’s segment we’ll discuss the parts list, stripping down an Xbox 360 motherboard, and modding / reattaching the DVD and hard drives. The next installment will cover case […]
Sachiko Kodama & Yasushi Miyajima created these amazing music-synced ferrofluid sculptures- “Morpho Towers–Two Standing Spirals” is an installation that consists of two ferrofluid sculptures that moves synthetically to music. The two spiral towers stand on a large plate that hold ferrofluid. When the music starts, the magnetic field around the tower is strengthened. Spikes of […]
I’ve posted a few times (here and here) about the amazing work of Alison Gordon at Wonderland Q, most recently from the Sampler contributions. Alison also is an organizer of Bazaar Bizarre and a helper to the Sampler. She’s a dedicated crafter and like most people who are trying to make it on their own […]
