Support Hurricane Sandy recovery AND get your knit on! Chrissy Gardiner will be donating the proceeds from her hurricane sock pattern to the Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund for all purchases made through Ravelry until November 30th.
The Pulse Sensor is a great way to incorporate biofeedback into your projects. This upgraded version adds amplification and noise reduction allowing for faster, more reliable heartbeat readings.
Buzzfeed user lrs crocheted herself this clever bacon dress as a halloween costume in response to the current bacon shortage.
Watch amazing costume and prop fabricator Shawn Thorsson (who was our cover story for Make: Vol 32) and MAKE’s Creative Director Jason Babler talk about making props, costumes, and models.
Visit Shawn’s blog at http://protagonist4hire.blogspot.com/
For more MAKE: Believe visit https://makezine.com/go/believe
In her studio overlooking the Aar, de Senna buttoned up her lab coat, donned her latex gloves and face mask, and spent the next three full months clocking about 800 hours working on her “I Love Caulk Frosting” series.
Build a motion-sensing alarm by combining a few common components: an Arduino, a PIR sensor, a piezo buzzer, and a breadboard. All you need is some jumper wire to connect them all, and the software to run it.
“Robertson’s tool chest contains all the same tools that were found in the original. All the tools work, even the plane’s tote (handle) is set a scale 1/8″ to one side as the original. The saw has 160 teeth to the inch. Robinson says that the hardest tool to make was the folding rule with 5 leaf hinge. It is about .030″ thick and hand engraved on boxwood. Things like the shears and dividers also have nice little joints…”
