How-To: Bacon Ornament
This cute felt bacon ornament by Serena at Seremeres Blog is easy to make and looks scrumptious hanging from the tree.
Month: December 2010
How-To: Tweed Wreath
Leigh Ann of Spincushion shares her tutorial for making this cool tweed wreath. I love the warmth and texture, and could see using these for any season of the year.
Holiday Gift Guide 2010: Hackerspaces
Write your list and check it twice, but make sure to save a little holiday love for your local hackerspace. If yours is anything like mine, it’s always missing something. A few weeks ago, I sent out a call for suggestions from hackerspace members and this is what they asked for: Furniture, $ varies Sitting […]
Traveling with DIY electronics
Michael writes in… Someone posted this on Dorkbot awhile back, and I thought it was so useful this time of the year that I put it on my blog. Perhaps it’s useful to the wider maker community… Good stuff to review. Pictured above – declarative talking lamp.
How-To: EyeWriter 2.0
Zach Lieberman writes: The EyeWriter is a low-cost eye-tracking apparatus + custom software that allows graffiti writers and artists with paralysis resulting from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis to draw using only their eyes. The original design featured a pair of glasses as the basis for the eyewriter design. Since that first video, we’ve been hacking on […]
Homemade Knitting Machine
John Maushammer @ Make: Online writes: YouTube user correx37 made this homemade knitting machine using old printer parts, two servos and a Picaxe-18x microcontroller. I love the simplicity and re-use of components. That slow, deliberate action could easily lull me in to a deep sleep… and when I woke up, I’d have a freshly-made scarf! […]
Miniature Leg Lamp From A Christmas Story
This tiny replica of the famous leg lamp from the movie A Christmas Story is the creation of Kris from 1 Inch Minis. The details are incredible. She hand-dyed the silk for the lampshade, mixing a color to match the shade in the movie. And check out how she created the fringe on the lamp: […]