How-To: Quilted And Beaded Obi Belt
Jan DiCintio points us to this pretty quilted and beaded obi belt by Alicia Thommas on Sew4Home. It looks like a great project to use up some of your scraps stash.
Month: August 2011
How-To: Scratchbuilt Hoth Laser Turret
It’s not a blow-by-blow tutorial, but these two posts from professional modeler Michael Fichtenmayer give a great general overview of his process for building these cool “DF.9 Anti Infantry Batteries” from the “Star Wars” universe from styrene stock and Bondo.
How-To: Feed Sack Messenger Bag
I would never have guessed that this striped, modern-looking messenger bag came from such humble and historic origins. Check out the Feed Sack Messenger Bag tutorial on the Crafty CPA, then get ready to start scouring your local antique markets for a sack of your own!
August is Quirky Crafts Month
Bacon Starry Night Welcome to August, Crafters! Our theme for this month is a new one – and yet, not really that new at all. We’ll be focusing on Quirky Crafts, which are projects that are a little funny and very original, and often help us see making things in new ways. Superhero Garden Gnomes […]
Caboose Transformed Into a Home
Marcia Weber transformed this turn of the century caboose into her permanent residence, and lives in it year-round in northeast Pennsylvania. At just under 350 square feet, it boasts all the amenities of a standard home, including a washer and dryer, bathroom, kitchen, living area and multiple beds. But it also has loads of special […]
RGB Accent Lighting with Remote Control
Our good friend Tod Kurt, of ThingM, shows how to control a strip of RGB LEDs using the BlinkM MaxM driver and a FreeM IR remote receiver. I used some similar strip lighting and a MaxM for a friend’s Halloween costume, and really liked being able to program the blink pattern via Arduino. The addition […]
High-Powered Rocket Avionics
Serious rocket enthusiast Steve Jurvetson built these units for his rockets. They feature G-Wiz HCX flight computers and the one on the right has a Flip camera for some aerial video.