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By Arwen O’Reilly On Saturday, I went to see some of the quilters from Gee’s Bend (see previous post on the exhibit of the quilts) talk at the De Young Museum. There was a huge, eclectic and passionate crowd there, eagerly awaiting the arrival of “the ladies,” as everyone seems to call them. They entered […]
David writes – “The new issue of Make magazine features a tutorial I wrote on embedding a MIDI data detector in a tiny Japanese monster toy. I took a bunch of photos for the article, along with two videos. You can see one video on the Make site, so I thought I’d share the other […]
Tim writes – “Simple AND playable DIY musical instruments in PVC, plastic and anything else that’s cheap. This is my site, which I haven’t done much with for several years. The recent DIY instruments made me remember all about it! Some of the projects were intended for young folks with budding mechanical skills, but all […]
Nick writes – “Inspired by “Game Over” my friend and I made this stop-motion version of the classic game Lunar Lander. I especially like the jelly-bean explosions! (Berty Bott’s!)” – Link. Related: Stop motion film of retro video games using household objects – Link. Frogger by PES – Link. Stop motion LEGO video – Link. […]
Dan has been busy building miniature synthesizers from cardboard, check’em out! He’s also selling them it seems… – Link.
Mike sewed pockets onto the back of a regular t-shirt to hold things like keys, digital cameras or water bottles to create something similar to a real cycling jersey. Link.
Here’s a super cheap light box from DoItYouself.com – “Ever wanted to do product shots but don’t have the bucks to spend on a proper light tent? Why not build one yourself. This lightbox will cost you less than 1 $ as it only uses 5 sheets of paper. After 15 minutes of folding and […]
