Your Comments
And we’re back with our forty-second installment of Your Comments. Here are our favorites from the past week, from Makezine, our Facebook page, and Twitter.
Month: September 2012
How-To: Shading in Embroidery
For anyone looking to dip their toes a bit deeper in the waters of embroidery, this great shading in embroidery tutorial from Follow the White Bunny will help you out! I’ve been in awe of Nicole’s embroidery skills for some time, and it’s fun to get a glimpse of how she does it.
How-To: Zigzag Tote Bag
It’s just about time for me to replace my favorite catch-all bag, and I’ve got my eye on this bold zigzag tote tutorial from Cheri at I Am Momma Hear Me Roar! Don’t you just love that red bias tape trim?
Printing Custom Lego-Compatible Beams
Brian Jepson is editing the Lego book Wayne & Layne and I are working on (it’s called Make: Lego and Arduino Projects) and he was faced with having to buy a ton of parts in order to test our models. Instead he decided to use his 3D printer to make his own! Inspired by BitBeam‘s […]
Nitsan Debbi’s Baked Electronics
Artist Nitsan Debbi created a series of working baked electronic products by removing the original cases to clocks, radios, and flashlight, and then baking them into new bread exteriors. [vis lustik]
The Treadmill Bike
The Treadmill Bike by Bicycle Forrest is cracking me up. Yes, it’s a viral video to ever so subtly introduce you to their Bicycle CAD software, but that’s not going to stop me from writing about it. Besides the fact that there’s CAD software geared towards building bikes, which is cool by itself, I think it’s great that they had an itch and decided to build a treadmill/bike mashup to scratch it.
How-To: Drop Cloth Pillow
Instructables user Fungus Amungus came up with another great alternative use for drop clothes with this drop cloth pillow tutorial. More: How-To: Tie Dye Drop Cloth Shoes Drop Cloth Suit How-To: Cityscape Stenciled Canvas Wall Art