There are many ways to calculate an approximation to pi, but rarely is math as delicious as in this idea from Davidson College professor Tim Chartier. Make a quarter circle in a square of graph paper and place chocolate chips on the squares that lie inside the circle. If you now count the chips and compute four times the number of chocolate chips divided by the total number of squares, that will be approximately pi.
Natural dyeing is a great way to learn more about plants growing around you, as well as how your yarn is processed. It’s a lot of fun! And you can get some really interesting and rewarding results.
Kids grow up so fast, so why not stitch up a pretty way to keep track? You can measure every new inch with this colorful DIY Growth Chart tutorial from Craft Snob. Hang it on your wall and watch the memories (and your kids) grow!
Lynne Bruning’s E-Textile Lounge at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011 is a place where anyone can learn to incorporate electronics into their fashion. The techniques she teaches include sewing, soldering, circuit building. The results are beautiful and creative wearables. Watch more videos from Maker Faire Bay Area. Subscribe to the Maker Faire podcast in iTunes, […]
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The R2D2 Builder’s Club brings one of the world’s most beloved fictional robots to life. Steve Simmons and his hobby roboticist club use fabrication, programming, and remote controls to build exact replicas of R2D2. Their R2’s are quirky friends who roamed Maker Faire Bay Area 2011 delighting everyone they encountered.
Suzy’s Artsy Craftsy Sitcom shows that even disposable aluminum pans can be delicate when used in the medium of quilling. I love the detail she was able to capture with something that is typically so industrial feeling. See how she made these quilled sparkly snowflakes over on her blog. [via Creative Jewish Mom] Related: Quilling […]
This classic Warhammer 40,000-style wargaming model is actually the work of the Games Workshop studio team, and was produced for an example battle in GW’s 2007 Apocalypse rulebook. Individual modelers, as far as I can tell, are not credited. There are more pictures on the GW website, and I find them especially interesting because they show the model both before and after painting.
