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On newsstands now is the special Holiday Gifts issue of Interweave Knits. It’s the perfect mix of projects that you can make for family and friends, as well as a bunch of great projects to decorate your home for the holidays. Yay, stockings! I love all the variety that’s in the issue for holiday gift […]
Here’s something fun to do if you’re having a gathering at your place and want to do something interesting with the large black box in the living room, make your TV into a work of art with some toilet paper rolls and fabric! [via] – Link.
One of my favorite modders/hadrware hackers Benjamin Heckendorn has a good how-to on making your own VGA cable for an Xbox 360, he writes – “Recent Xbox 360 updates have allowed the system to spit out resolutions up to 1080p, and with the new HD DVD add-on drive there’s more reason than ever to use […]
Lizette Greco added this to the CRAFT flickr pool. Lizette says, “This past summer I asked my sister-in-law if she had any clothes I could recycled into toys. She gave me her favorite travel shirt that she used to wear everywhere she traveled, hiked, rode horseback, etc. She wore it last when she was in […]
From the CRAFT flickr pool, Jenny Ryan of Sew Darn Cute and Felt Club created this toy snake for the upcoming gallery show “Dinosaur Party” at Giant Robot in San Francisco (617 Shrader St.). Featuring the work of: Martin Cendreda, Jaime Zollars, Saejeen Oh, Susie Ghahremani, Steven Weissman, Souther Salazar, Carleen Cotter, Gary Baseman, Calef […]
Edmond put pong on an Oscilloscope, he writes – “…I created a vector-based, two-player Pong game on an analog oscilloscope. Two potentiometer knobs functioned as the paddle controllers, and A/D converters translated the voltage set by the controllers into coordinate information for the players’ paddles. The XY mode of oscilloscope enabled two voltage inputs to […]
Friedpope writes – “Target is handing out Wii GiftCards in anticipation of Nintendo’s release of this remarkable console. The cards are a bit thicker than your regular credit card and house some pretty nifty electronics. Pressing the button on the outside of the card turns on a ominous blue Wii glow that lasts about ten […]
