We stumbled upon this idea because we left a green T-shirt, crumpled in a ball, out in the yard for a few days. When I shook it out, I saw that the places exposed to the sun had been bleached out. And the idea for the Solar Printed Pumpkin Tee was born!
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Get geared up for circuit-making- check out Collin’s list of tools no electronaut should be without!
Everyone remembers when Craftzine was CRAFT magazine, right? Our print edition’s founding editor was Carla Sinclair, a crafty mother of two beautiful daughters, and wife to MAKE Editor-in-Chief Mark Frauenfelder. Carla’s introduction to the DIY lifestyle began when her family lived on Rarotonga and she made dolls with her daughters from found objects. Life on […]
At Maker Faire Bay Area 2011, Ben demonstrates PhoneSat, a project in conjunction with NASA done to prove that a cellphone can serve as a viable CPU in an orbital satellite. The Nexus One on board uses the Android OS and is monitored by an Arduino that also serves as a rebooting device.
I imagine a designer’s dream Christmas tree would be covered in these awesome Pantone ball ornaments. Can you image? Just the thought of it makes me all happy inside. [via Design Crush and @papercrave] More: Pantone Chip Cookies Rubik + Pantone = Rubitone How-To: Pantone Chip Magnets Pantone Coffee Mug
A run through of basic and indispensable electronics tools to get newcomers properly geared up
If you are looking for a subject likely to inflame the hearts of mathematicians, make them slightly weak in the knees, and induce some distinctly poetical sentiments, Klein’s Quartic, first described by German mathematician Felix Klein in 1878, seems like a pretty good bet. Though the surface itself, per Wikipedia, “does not have a (non-trivial) 3-dimensional linear representation,” several prominent math-bloggers have produced models, projections, and plain-language written explanations attempting – and doing a pretty good job of it, IMHO – to communicate their passion for the construct…
