How-To: Pretty Paper Flowers from a Trader Joe’s Bag
Turn extra shopping bags into pretty West Elm-inspired paper flowers with this easy-to-follow tutorial!
Month: August 2013
Control RGB LEDs with this Android-Arduino Combo-Circuit
Combine an Arduino with a USB host mode-compatible Android device, and control a strip of full-color RGB LEDs with your Android’s touchscreen. Explore Pulse Width Modulation to get maximum brightness from your LEDs and mix their values to correct for color balance.
Operation PinkBomb
Breast cancer awareness meets crafty hijinx with the Operation PinkBomb project and challenge from Mrs. Greene.
How-To: Deconstruct a Shirt Into Working Yardage
Quilter extraodinaire Luke Haynes shared his method for turning a salvaged garment into fabric that he can work with on a quilting project.
Colorful Bottle Cap Mural
Artist Lisa Be upcycled approximately 25,000 bottle caps to create a stunning public mural in Long Beach, New York.
Raspberry Pi Emulates a Retro Mac at 1/3 Scale
John Badger from RetroMacCast shows off his replica retro Macintosh which he built using sheet PVC and a Raspberry Pi.
Building a Transistor-Scale 555
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories and Eric Schlaepfer have developed a kit that builds a working 555 built out of discrete, through-hole transistors.