Faux Brick with Polymer Clay
Angela of CraftyGoat makes faux brick out of polymer clay to mask her silver phone jack against her brick wall. Genius! Link.
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Game machine hacking at Vienna Dorkbot
The Vienna chapter of Dorkbot did a video of their last meeting, focused on game machine hacking. The hacks range from refurbishing and computerizing an analog pinball machine, to an electric guitar casemod (the NES Paul), to making music with the Nintendo DS. The meeting takes place at Metalab, an amazing playground for hackers in […]
HOW TO – Make Your Own Envelopes from Recycled Paper
Jo at The Knitted Blog shows you how to make your own envelopes from scrap paper, magazines, or any other paper you have and need to recycle. Link.
Maker Saturday Webcasts – Tools for Making Things with Jim Newton – 7/21/2007 1:00 PM PDT
Maker Saturday Webcasts – Tools for Making Things with Jim Newton – 7/21/2007 1:00 PM PDT – Ever had an idea for something you’d like to make–but you had no idea what tools you might need for the task? While demonstrating how to build an electromechanical digital clock, Jim Newton will talk about different kinds […]
Craft PDX Block Party on Sunday
Susan writes: If you’re in Portland on Sunday, be sure to come by the Craft PDX Block Party! The Museum of Contemporary Craft is celebrating their grand re-opening with an afternoon full of craft, music, and workshops, all free to the public. Glass, metal, and wood artists will be demonstrating their work, and there will […]
Rolled Paper Strips Art
Patricia of A Little Hut has more beautiful recycled art projects, this one by rolling recycled paper into little circles. Link.
Run Keynote with a Wiimote
Jason has a great how-to on using a Wii remote to control Mac OS X (Keynote) – A couple people wrote in today in response to my post about WiiRemote, the Windows Wiimote input device driver. More specifically, I’ve been reminded that I completely left the similarly capable DarwiinRemote for OS X out of the […]