Maker Faire Weekend Recap: Albuquerque and Dover
A glimpse of projects and people from this past weekend’s Dover and Albuquerque Mini Maker Faires.
Month: August 2013
Quilting Happiness Project Excerpt: The Pocket Wall Caddy
Try your hand at a beautifully simple organizer that you’ll use for years to come with this Pocket Wall Caddy project from the book QUILTING HAPPINESS: Projects, Inspiration & Ideas to Make Quilting More Joyful by Christina Lane & Diane Gilleland!
Announcing the Winners for NYC’s Road to Maker Faire Challenge
The winners for NYC’s first Road to Maker Faire Challenge are announced. Congratulations to the winners and thank you to all the makers who entered this one-of-a-kind contest. View a gallery of all the contestants on the blog.
How-To: Cross-Stitch
Brush up your stitching know-how—or pick up some new brand new skills—with this helpful basic cross-stitch tutorial!
Lego Mindstorms EV3 Most Useless Machine
Laurens Valk built this quick & dirty “most useless machine” with a Lego Mindstorms EV3 set. It consists of a touch sensor acting as a switch and a servo motor resetting the switch every time it’s pulled. It’s a machine with no purpose other than to shut itself off!
Singer VIVO Create and Repair Sewing Machine
I have several full-sized sewing machines that I use for project design and writing tutorials, but they aren’t always ideal for small, quick projects or for teaching and travel, so I’m definitely intrigued by the new VIVO Create and Repair Machine from Singer.
Arduino in Math Class
Precalculus is a class that has many opportunities for creative teaching. Since we are a smaller school, there isn’t enough interest in computer science to justify a full class so I try to embed some of these skills into my math classes to help students become ready for the computer heavy careers that may await them.
One way I’ve found to do this is through Arduino. My students had heard of Arduino because we had a few students working on Arduino projects last year, but had never worked with them. They were excited at the opportunity to “play” in math.