Battlestar Gallactica Cross-Stitch Sampler From Steotch
Our favorite cross-stitching couple, Steotch, is back with a rad new sampler that will have sci-fi fans all kinds of giddy. Behold, the BSG sampler! [via @bonniegrrl]
Month: November 2011
New in the Maker Shed: Ephrem’s Deluxe Bottle Cutter
We’ve featured Ephrem’s Bottle Cutter in MAKE:Vol 28, Matt Richardson’s Video (shown below) and in Make:Projects, so it’s about time we made it available in the Maker Shed! This deluxe kit includes the bottle cutting jig, carbide polishing compound, a candle, instructions, and a special adapter to allow cutting on the neck of the bottle. Perfect making everything from drinking vessels to bottleneck guitar slides.
Giant Lomo Photobooth
My friend Jeff Wilson alerted me to this awesomely large Lomo-styled photo booth his colleague Matt Frank built for his wedding. The camera-shaped enclosure houses a Mac running PhotoBooth, a monitor for instant feedback, halogen lighting, and a hacked Easy button sending serial commands (via Arduino) to the computer. He has an excellent how-to here […]
The Life Garden at Eyebeam
Beatriz da Costa’s anti-cancer work in progress, called “The Life Garden,” is currently on display at Eyebeam in Manhattan. The Life Garden is an anti-cancer medicinal and demonstration garden. Currently on display are our first attempts at growing various plants and herbs indoors that commonly need outdoor space in various different climate zones. Additional experiments […]
How-To: Prescription Goggles
Longtime MAKE pal (and Volume 17 cover-guy) Jake von Slatt shows us an easy way to hack an old pair of eyeglass lenses into a set of goggles for use around the shop, or when driving through the desert in an art car with no name. Good to hear from you, Jake! Keep ’em coming!
How-To: Pocket Bot Dolls
I love these adorable pocket bot dolls from Jodie of Ric Rac. Their little pockets are the perfect place to stash a secret message or extra surprise, and I love that she’s used a handbag foot as the antennae on each bot. Get the pattern and how-to over on Ric Rac.
ColorHug: Open Source Display Colorimeter
Because color can differ wildly from one monitor to another, many designers and publishers rely on proprietary colorimeters to calibrate their displays. Software developer and electrical engineer Richard Hughes has been working on his own open source colorimeter he calls ColorHug. Along with the Linux software (also open source), it takes about a minute for ColorHug to take several hundred measurements and create an ICC color profile, which can be read by other operating systems.