Knitting Pattern: Striped Crew Socks
Socks are one of my absolute favorite take-along knitting projects, and I’m definitely loving this new striped crew socks knitting pattern!
Month: May 2014
Super-Simple Mod Gives Your DSLR Nine Hours of Battery Life
A DC adapter and an external battery pack lets you shoot all day.
Joy Division’s “Unknown Pleasures” Cover 3D-Printed
Anna Kaziunas France, of Global Fab Academy, prints out a 3D model of the iconic Joy Division album cover art for Unknown Pleasures. Did you know it’s a radio waveform from the first pulsar ever discovered? And that it was lifted directly from an astronomy encyclopedia?
How-To: Cross-Stitch Papier-mâché Suitcase
Add some vacation-inspired style to your home decor with this lovely cross-stitch papier-mâché suitcase tutorial!
Shapeways Introduces New Flexible Material
Yesterday, 3D Printing service Shapeways announced the availability of a new material in their already-impressive lineup, a flexible plastic polymer. Printing with this “Elasto Plastic” will cost $1.75/cm3, and like many of the other materials, is laser-sintered one layer at a time.
Oscilloscope Tweet Display
One of the projects to be featured at NYC Resistor’s 4th Annual Interactive Show is this cool vector display Twitter client, which scans for tweets with the word “I” in it and displays them on an oscilloscope. It’s a little known fact that during the 1940′s the premier Twitter client was a cathode ray oscillograph […]
North Carolina’s 4th Mini Maker Faire set for June 15
North Carolina’s fourth Mini Maker Faire is just two weeks away and there’s a great list of makers coming to the event. Here are a just a few worth checking out.
