What are the tools every hands-on projecteer needs? To answer that question, we went right to DIYers themselves, specifically the exhibitors at last fall’s World Maker Faire NY event. One tool everyone agreed on is a Multimeter. It’s surprising how much information you can glean from a simple resistance reading or by checking out the voltage drop across a series of LEDs.
Lisa of Lil Fish Studios has been making some incredible tiny needle felted landscape brooches, and their detail is blowing me away. This one, her smallest to date, is mounted on a piece of deer antler that she cut and drilled. Be sure to check out her Flickr stream for more examples of her beautiful […]
The smartphones NASA uses on missions to conduct experiments are the same smartphones that can be used to control your next hobby robotics project. Android robotics enthusiast, Tamlyn, used a IOIO board and a reclaimed RC tank chassis to create this Android powered robot tank.
Ever curious to see what’s inside those everyday objects we take for granted, EDN’s Margery Conner tears apart the AmbientLED light bulb from Philips to see what makes the oddly yellow bulb emit a white light when lit.
This Mindstorms CNC mill was the first original model YouTube user kabeltomten made with his NXT 2.0 set.
If you remember last week, Rachel Hobson posted about the latest quilt-along from Oh, Fransson! I really liked her concept of a billboard quilt, so much so that I’ve decided to join the quilt-along and post about it here. I’ve never joined a quilt-along before, so I’m excited for the challenge. The first post went […]
Here’s a lovely resist-dye technique from Kari of Sweet Verbena, guest blogging at Ucreate. She used a readily-available gel glue to write and draw on plain tees, and then dunked them in dye. The glue prevents the dye from soaking in, creating a subtle pattern in white, and then it washes away completely. How pretty!
