Free Tote Bag Pattern, Tutorial
The folks over at Chronicle Books are offering up this free tote bag tutorial and pattern from the new book 1, 2, 3 Sew by Ellen Luckett Baker. It’s an easy sewing project that produces a useful result!
Month: June 2011
Crafting Your Online Presence: How Does the Money Follow from Doing What You Love?
By Diane Gilleland Last month, we talked about originality – why it’s important to find that one thing only you can do, and then share it online. I drew on stories from last month’s Crafting Your Online Presence panels at Maker Faire. This month, I want to share another strong theme from those discussions: that […]
Make: Projects – Hedge Maze Area Rug
Cutting designs in carpet with electric clippers works surprisingly well. I used an old pair of clippers, and though the blades were pretty much toast when I was done, they weren’t new to begin with, and they only cost $10 to replace. The actual cutting went pretty quickly.
Ceramic Coasters are Maps of Oslo
Each of these coasters by Anders Hansen is a map of a section of Oslo. This project started with my fascination for city grids, from the strict geometry of New York to the seemingly chaotic Bombay structure. At the time, living abroad and feeling a bit homesick, and I decided to use the map of […]
Thermal Tweeter Prints Tweets
Send @dangerousproto a tweet and their thermal printer will print it! (Watch it live on Ustream for the time being.) This is a soft-launch of our project for the Adafruit/Instructables Make it Tweet Challenge. We’ll have some documentation up on Instructables tomorrow, but we need your help stress testing the system today. Thermal Tweeter is […]
How-To: Clever “Sit” Chair Hack
I love clever projects that make me chuckle, like this chair from Fine Diving. [via Decor Hacks]
A Gentle Introduction to Netduino
If you are a .NET programmer with a passion for hardware platforms, chances are you have heard of and used a Netduino. For the rest of us, however, learning both a new programming language and circuit design can be daunting. That is where Greg Duncan from the Coding for Fun Blog comes in. Greg has written several Netduino posts in the past and decided to write something specifically targeted towards beginners.