How-To: Shoeboxes With a Window
This IKEA hack from Juditu couldn’t be more simple, and turns a regular cardboard box into shoe storage with a view. I’m thinking this could also be a nice solution for craft items!
Month: June 2011
Crafty Events
Click to add an event to the online calendar Click to email me a call for vendors. Coming Up This Weekend: Urban Folk Circuit Chicago, IL Jun. 18 Old Canal Days Lockport, IL Jun. 18-19 Peace Festival and Auction Clear Brook, VA Jun. 18 Mini Maker Faire: North Carolina Raleigh, NC Jun. 18 Call for […]
Getting Dad Started with Arduino
Father’s Day 2011 is just up head and I’m sure that a large percentage of us have waited until the last minute to get dad a nice little something. If you’ve got one of those dads that maybe patiently taught you to change the oil in your car, rip plywood on a table saw, replace a video card on your PC, or any other hands-on activity, then you’ve got a dad who’ll likely enjoy a gift of 21st century tinkering: the Arduino.
Lovely Radial LED Matrix
Beautiful work from Instructables user ledartist. “Aurora” sports 162 RGB LEDs on a custom two-sided PCB and a fancy high-resolution PWM scheme to provide impressively smooth color transitions. Mesmerizing.
CRAFT Pattern: My Fair Ladybug, by Vickie Howell
By Vickie Howell When I was 3 or 4 years old, my mom knit me a ladybug vest and skirt. Man, I loved that outfit! Unfortunately, the original was lost in the great hand-me-down beyond. Still to this day though, I appreciate the cuddly kitsch of the ensemble; so much so that I decided to […]
Lego Camera & Video Roundup
#10 Lego Follow Focus #9 Lego Large Format Camera #8 Lego Nxt Pinhole Camera #7 Lego Quadpod For An All-Terrain Camera
The Type Truck: Taking Letterpress to the People
Kyle Durrie has a pretty awesome dream. From her website: “Two of my favorite things in the world are printing and road trips. But these two things kept getting in the way of one another in my life; they seemed mutually exclusive. I wanted to figure out a way to do both things at the […]