Shopping cart furniture
Here’s some great recycled furniture made from shopping carts by Ramon Coronado. [via Milkcrate Digest] More: Maker Workshop – Shopping Cart Chair
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Crafty Cakes Featured on Cake Wrecks Sunday Sweets
Every Sunday, Cake Wrecks features a collection of non-wreck cakes in their Sunday Sweets. This weekend, they showcased cakes with a crafty edge, and included pieces that look like they were stitched, quilted and even … quilled! Such fun! It’s got me wondering what kind of a crafty cake I could make for my birthday. […]
Skeleton Bodysuit
My preoccupation with bones knows no crafty bounds, so this skeleton bodysuit naturally had me drooling all the way over to the GoodHoodStore. Admittedly, this exact project is one of the primary reasons I own a computerized knitting machine. [via Street Anatomy] More: CRAFT Video: Skeleton Cardigan
Circuit-bending workshop at the Hack Factory in Minneapolis
The above is an example of what the circuit benders at the Hack Factory will be building in Handmade Music: Minneapolis (HMMM), their regular music-making event. The next Handmade Music: Minneapolis will be on Saturday May 1st, starting at 5pm. Alex Deeba (from GetLoFi) and Michael Una will be holding a Workshop to build an […]
Game Cartridge Soap
It’s the ultimate retro gaming meets personal hygiene mashup. These bars of soap shaped like classic game cartridges from Indiana maker Lesly Karpiuk will certainly increase the nostalgia points of your domicile’s lavatory.
Bulbdial clock has no moving parts, casts shadows for hands
This clever clock kit from EMSL has an analog-style face, but no hands. Instead, kinda like a sundial, it has a “gnomon” that sticks up in the middle. Three rings of inward-pointing LEDs are positioned around the rim, each a different color and each at a different angle relative to the face. The blue ring is at the shallowest angle, and thus casts the longest shadow representing the “seconds” hand. The red ring is at the steepest angle and casts the shortest shadow to make the “hours” hand. The green ring, in the middle, is minutes. Check the video above, courtesy YouTube user amandachou, to see it in action.
The “Bulbdial” clock is available as a kit with four different case options, but the clear/black variety shown above is definitely my favorite because it shows off the cool retro-futurist logo on the circuit board. Here’s a time-lapse video of YouTuber jcorsaro building one from a kit.
I Heart Geraniums
Sigh.How sweet is that tiny heart? The little dainty petal came from a true geranium (not to be confused with pelargonium, a much larger popular flower). In my yard, these itsy bitsy flowers grow freely in with the grass, clover and forget-me-nots. Because they “go to seed” with great success, many gardeners consider them a […]