Leia may have referred to him as a “walking carpet,” but most of us could appreciate the cuddly quality of Chewbacca. Pilgrim of Draw, Pilgrim! gives geeks the chance to snuggle everyone’s favorite wookie with this sweet pattern for a Chewie stuffed doll. Related: Star Wars Stitchery
I have built a couple of laser-cut and CNC-routed kits, recently, that use this clever arrangement of tabs, slots, and a couple bits of cheap hardware to securely butt one panel against another at a right angle. One panel has a pair of rectangular ports with a round hole in between, and the other has a matching pair of tabs with a smaller T-shaped slot between. In use, the ports receive the tabs and a screw passes through the round hole and along the upright of the T to mate with a square nut captured in the arms of the T. There are many possible variations and the technique has lots to recommend it from a manufacturer’s standpoint.
Congrats Ayah and team, during all this time she also co-chaired the Open Hardware summit. This makes littleBits the 4th open-source hardware company to receive funding (Chumby, BugLabs, MakerBot and now littleBits).
RIP Steve Jobs. You, and your Homebrew Computer cohort and Apple Computer, fundamentally changed our lives, through technology. Multiple times. You (and Apple) made magic with technology. I literally gasped the first time I picked up the new MacBook Air. Not a lot of consumer tech makes me gasp.
If car users knew how fast cyclists were moving, would they be more willing to share the road? That’s the question posed by Mykle Hansen in the intro to his Speed Vest project from MAKE Volume 19. Bicyclists receive a lot of honk-based grief from car drivers who perceive them as slow and in the […]
Here’s another handmade over store bought project for you to show those who are re-selling this stuff on ebay for an arm and a leg we don’t need ’em. We can make our Missoni shoes!
When I was at Eastern Market in Detroit last weekend, I almost crashed into one of these giant apples as I drifted toward the smell of cider and donuts. The MI Apple Trail is a celebration of southeastern Michigan’s farmers markets. Located across 20 markets in Wayne, Oakland, and Genessee Counties, the apples, made in […]
