I am a very recent convert to the joys of needle felting, but the whole process seems custom-made for holiday crafting! I love this tutorial for tiny needle felted mittens from Meg at Mega Crafty because it’s so easy to customize colors and styles to fit personal preferences and home decor. Her method uses cookie […]
Whimseybox is a new monthly craft supply subscription service, created by Alicia DiRago, a Houston-based DIY blogger and instructor. I connected with Alicia shortly after I moved to Houston last year. I finally met her in person at Quilt Market back in October, and was excited to hear about her new venture with Whimseybox. A […]
When I first got to play with the EZ-Robot Controller I thought it was just another microcontroller. I assumed I would have to take time to learn it’s programming syntax and the Bluetooth would be hard to set up. I was wrong. Wonderfully wrong. In under 5 minutes I was able to have a crude-looking robot chase my dog around the room using voice commands!
Love Hultèn‘s R-Kaid-6 packs the Maximus Arcade MAME front end, and cooly, you can stack the controllers on top of the console when you’re not playing. [Via Geeky Gadgets]
Looking to step up your gingerbread house making game this year? Check out this amazing gingerbread brownstone project from Instructables user kitchentablescraps! Living in Brownstone Brooklyn myself, I’m definitely impressed with the meticulous attention to cookie-and-frosting detail—there’s even a fire escape!
Radio whiz Greg Charvat just published this video showing off a very cool experiment with the low-cost coffee can radar system he and co-workers developed, in the fall of 2010, for MIT’s open courseware initiative. In the video, Greg describes and demonstrates a simple circuit that causes a red/green LED on the receiving antenna to glow one color when the amplitude of the received wave is positive, and another when it is negative…
This is a perfect project for stocking stuffers or small gifts for groups of friends. Brooke of Cheeky Kitchen shares how she and her daughter made flavored lip gloss using simple grocery and craft store ingredients. See how it came together over on her blog. I love her ideas for making holiday-themed flavors (including mistletoe!).
