In honor of Screen-Free Week, the Maker Shed has a great deal on the TV-B-Gone. Turn any TV on or off with a click of the button! With the new and improved Gen 3 model, even big-screen LCD TVs aren’t safe anymore! New features include instant reactivation with the press of a button, a bigger […]
In this weeks show, Rik and Frits are taking a look at one of the oldest, yet still most popular simple and fun hobby robot projects: “The Sumo”. Also in this show, a look at a very impressive piece of a hand made full metal robot that looks like it is ready to explore Mars. […]
Susan Beal has posted up a fantastic explanation of the differences between bias and binding tape and how to use them in quilting. It’s a perfect resource for bookmarking, and answers some great basic questions we’ve all had at some point. It’s a must-read! More: How-To: Custom Bias Tape How-To: Attach Bias Tape With Mitered […]
George Hart @ MAKE writes: Tim Chartier at Davidson College has discovered that if you make things out of candy there’s no lack of volunteers to help you clean up. He takes images and transforms them mathematically into arrays of candy pieces. Here you can see President Obama, as rounded to the set of m&m […]
This is a super-rough hardware sketch of what a mechanical Twitter feed might look like. I’ve been playing with ideas around combining digital projection with mechanical motion and this is a prototype to test some of the ideas. It consists of a series of people I follow on Twitter represented as their user photo printed […]
These are from deviantART user dkart71. Back in 2007, we covered similar work from a Brazilian artist who goes by Blancosur. [via Boing Boing]
I love the look of traditional pysanky, but between not having a steady hand and not having much free time, I tend to shy away from it. Pam of Gingerbread Snowflakes has a brilliant idea for achieving the delicate pysanky look with Sharpies instead of wax and dye. As she points out, it’s also a […]
