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Chandelier Makeover
Vickie Howell transforms an ordinary plain chandelier into a hot pink beauty for her future daughter’s nursery. Learn how you can do this too with her chandelier makeover tutorial.
Austin event: get (circuit) bent
Check out this circuit-bending Austin celebration tonight: No cover charge, and all-ages friendly. Map here; hope to see you there!
John Park on Attack of the Show (video)
Ty from Attack of the Show writes – We’re joined in the studio once again by John Park from his DIY projects TV show on public station’s across the country called ‘Make.’ He’s come back with even more stuff you can build yourself and he’s going to do some fancy demonstrations for us. Take for […]
Plush You! Application Deadline Fast Approaching
Kristen Rask’s annual Plush You! show at Schmancy in Seattle is still accepting applications until March 15th. You can send in three examples of your plush work to apply, and they don’t have to be the ones you put in the show. This year there’s going to be a sister exhibition of plush wearables at […]
Announcing QuahogCon: hacker con coming soon to RI
John Duksta writes in with news that DC401, the Providence-based group that hacks electronics among other things, is planning a hacker con: The hacker spirit runs deep in Rhode Island. We were the first state to sign the Declaration of Independence, the last to ratify the Constitution, and the American Industrial Revolution began here with […]
Head-up display unit for FPV hobby flying
The whole FPV (First Person View) R/C flying hobby fascinates me. I’d love to try it at some point. This system, being developed by a French maker, is a board that plugs into the video camera system used in a FPV rig to provide a heads-up display with useful flight, navigation, and power information. Looks […]