How-To: Add an Exposed Zipper to a T-Shirt
Bring some fresh style to an old tee with this simple tutorial for adding an exposed zipper to a t-shirt!
Month: March 2013
Lime Jello Fuel Cell
This fun instructable by egbertfitzwilly shows how to make a microbial fuel cell out of jello, yeast, and carbon paper. Here’s how it works, we’re going to mix a little Jello brand Instant Gelatin with some Fleischmann’s Active Yeast and a few drops of plant food. Once that solidifies we’re going to cut out some […]
Screen Printing PCBs
Colombian maker Ampletos shows how to screen print PCBs (Google translated from Spanish) using a normal screen printing setup. [via Hacked Gadgets]
Star Wars Cross-Stitch
Tumblr user cattyfren recently completed this epic Star Wars cross-stitch piece by working from a pattern based on am image downloaded from the internets.
Steve Casino Is Nuts
In a good way, of course. If Steve Casino lived on a peanut farm, he could be a found-object artist. Steve paints tiny portraits of people he admires on peanuts. He picks the person he wants to depict, sifts through hundreds of nuts to find just the right one, cracks it open, remove the nuts, […]
Sneak Peek: Board Forge Pick & Place
Born out of a collaboration at famed Chicago hackerspace Pumping Station One, Board Forge is a six-person startup developing a prosumer-grade, open-source circuit board assembly robot. This weekend at SXSW Create, I got a chance to snap a few photos of their prototype version 1.0 while chatting with founder Jeff McAlvay about the democratization of industrial electronics assembly equipment.
5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Things About Benedetta Piantella
New York City-based researcher, designer, innovator, and entrepreneur Benedetta Piantella is a master at overclocking her mind. She’s an adjunct professor at two universities, teaching such courses as human-computer interaction, user experience, and physical computing. Concurrently, she’s a tech consultant for UNICEF and a technology architect for Columbia University’s Earth Institute. Benedetta has cofounded two […]