Lace Earring Tutorial
Barbe at Craft Gossip Jewelry Making points to this easy tutorial by Minding Prismera that shows you how you can make your own lace earrings from heavy lace trim. [ via ] Link.
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Pancake Art
Garth at Extreme Craft points us today to these two pancakes modeled after Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton made by artist Kathy King. Link. For more pancake art like Dai Harkuki’s pancake dog above, you can check out the pancake art Flickr group. Link.
Handmade Music Night * Thursday, Aug 23* 8PM @ ETSY & MAKE
On Thursday, August 23 at 8PM, Etsy Labs is teaming up with Make Magazine and Create Digital Music http://createdigitalmusic.com/ for another Handmade Music Night. Come check out the projects on display, meet other like-minded people, and listen to some handmade music! At the last Handmade Music Night, there were instruments made from an iron, a […]
Mini UAV using Parallax Propeller chip
Here’s a work-in-progress, from a guy who’s building a mini UAV, using a Blade CX2 R/C helicopter and the awesome Parallax Propeller Chip. He writes of the build: The CX2 controller has 4 potentiometers into which I spliced a breadboard. A Parallax Propeller (prop chip) is used to read the control stick voltages through a […]
1,700 arcade manuals
Jason Scott posted a collection of 1,700 arcade manuals in PDF format, he writes – If you were saying to yourself “Now, where can I browse over 1,700 arcade manuals in PDF format?”, your prayers were just answered. This is over three gigabytes of manuals, schematics, and general information about arcade machines, scanned in by […]
Mashing up your own action figures
Wired.com has a nice package of three articles covering action figure modding. “Action Figure Modders Aren’t Just Toying Around” introduces the concept of custom figures, “Zap! A Gallery of Customized Action Figures” shows off a bunch of builder mods, and in Wired’s How-To Wiki, “Make Your Own Action Figure” shows you how, or at least […]
More VEXplorer details
Our buds over at Robot Magazine have an online exclusive, with lots of photos, of the forthcoming new VEX Robotics Design System, dubbed the Revell VEXPlorer. As you probably know, the VEX system, first sold by Radio Shack, was sold to Revell Monogram. The Robot mag piece has details about the content, pics of the […]
