Converse Booties
Tumblr user Babertooth demonstrates that it’s never to early to start sporting the chucks with these Converse Booties made from a pattern by Ravelry user hillsmel.
Month: June 2013
CRAFT Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
Need some crafty inspiration? Here are some of the cool things we saw in the CRAFT Flickr Pool this week!
What does this 2×6 have to do with Father’s Day?
It starts out with a seven year old boy who wants bunk beds.
Farm Drones Take Flight
We all know what drones can do in the hands of the military and law enforcement. For recreational use, they’re fun to fly around with a GoPro strapped to its belly. The commercial use of drones is in its infancy. Congress passed a law last year requiring the FAA to open the skies to wider drone flights by 2015. Once the happens, the FAA estimates that within five years there will be about 7,500 civilian drones in use. According DIY Drones’ Chris Anderson, one of the areas we’re likely see more drones is a place that doesn’t come to mind when we think about aerial robots: farms.
How-To: DIY T-Shirt Dress
Take the t-shirt dress to a whole new level of cute with this fun DIY t-shirt dress video tutorial!
The Smart Citizen Kit Open Environmental Monitoring Platform
There’s still time to get in on the launch of the Smart Citizen sensor and data platform; their fully-funded Kickstarter ends on Sunday. The Smart Citizen Kit looks to be one of the more polished efforts at building a distributed sensing and data aggregation platform. The kit is a microcontroller motherboard (wireless networking and Arduino-compatible […]
Reasons to Build a Prototype
About 70 campers showed up today at the offices of OATV for Hardware Summer Camp, organized by Nick Pinkston, Renee DiResta and Adam Ellsworth. I kicked off the Saturday session with a short talk, remarking that the maker movement has been built around a prototyping revolution more than a manufacturing revolution. One can see that […]
