Inside Brooklyn Craft Camp
Last Saturday, I spent the whole day crafting, laughing, and hanging out with other makers at Brooklyn Craft Camp!
Month: March 2013
Mass Generator Works as a Gravity Battery
While not terribly practical for outputting large amounts of electricity, this “gravity battery” demonstrated by YouTube guru MrTeslonian shows a fun way of generating electricity. In his video he mentions a 25′ version with a pair of water-filled jugs, and when one jug hits the bottom, a pump is triggered that refills the empty jig […]
Rain Gutter Garden
Grow Food, Not Lawns posted this image of an ingenious garden made from rain gutters, which are arranged to let water drain down from the top.
Painted Paper Flower Headbands
Here’s a fun project for the beginning of spring!
Hand Painted Tea Towels
Creature Comforts provides a nice and easy tutorial for hand painted tea towels. This is a fabulous DIY because it’s so practical for your own home, and gives you endless custom-made gift ideas for friends, family, and hostesses at parties.
Yarn Dyeing with Young Crafters
For the soon-to-be knitters and crocheters in your life, try dyeing your own yarn with them.
Open Source Hardware Documentation Jam
The jam is a 3-day workshop to improve OSHW documentation practices: The power of open source hardware lies in the ability to build upon others’ work and good documentation is the key to making this happen. We believe that documentation best practices can increase contributions to open source hardware projects significantly. For this reason, we […]