[Photo from Uncle Ray] Long before my time, my grandfather Raymond Albert Sheffield, was messing about with cars. When I was about 10 or 11, we sat on a beach on Martha’s Vineyard watching the ferries come and go exchanging cars and passengers while he told me of the car that he had built in […]
Skulls! Who doesn’t love ’em? Well, me, for one, and probably a bunch of other folks who don’t care to be constantly reminded of mortality. We seem to be in the minority, however, with most deriving some kind of weird existential thrill, or deep Buddhist-y zen calm, from staring deep into the empty, black sockets […]
Hello Lucky! points to this amazing Marie Antoinette wedding cake made my Cake Coquette and photographed by Sabine Scherer. I love the gold frosting and ornate design!
The Purl Bee has a tutorial for whipping up this sweet little sunhat in patriotic colors for baby’s first 4th of July.
This week in the CRAFT Flickr pool we saw: RSS pillow by Craftsquatch, Storm Trooper hat by MyJewelThief Kiwi pillow by casscette, and Accordian Polka earrings by Christine Domanic.
Francesco Fondi, of GAMERSWEB, sent us this video of Hina, a manga custom version of the Kondo KHR-2HV robot. It’s a scaled-down version of KHR-2HV, using 20 digital servos (KRS-788HV) plus one GWS-PICO-STD, all controlled by a small board located in the head. While it “makes coffee” only through the miracle of video editing, the […]
This month’s Dorkbot London looks like a smashing good time: Something good – Douglas Repetto: The founder of dorkbot visits from NYC to spin us a fine tale. Electricity – Mike Harrison: Expect high voltages. Open source embroidery – Ele Carpenter: Investigating the relationship between programming for embroidery and computing. Lunar Lander – Iain Sharp: […]
