Rocketboom at World Maker Faire
Molly of Rocketboom paid a visit to World Maker Faire this weekend and filed this video report. Molly Goes to the Maker Faire
Month: September 2010
Floor Made of Nickels
Sean @ Make: Online writes: A Seattle family exposed to the virulent penny floor meme has contracted a more expensive (and therefore probably less contagious) mutant strain that metabolizes nickels instead of pennies. I do like the different color effect this achieves, but by my math (and depending on how much space you leave between […]
How-To: LED embroidery
It’s Geek Crafts month on CRAFT, where we’ve re-released my LED Embroidery tutorial. Stitch a circuit with conductive thread to make a light-up wall hanging! There’s a video, PDF template, and, of course, step-by-step instructions. In the Maker Shed: LED Sewing Kit
Art from cut leaves
Rachel @ CRAFT points us to these amazingly detailed cut leaves by Nature’s Art, complete with a step-by-step (PDF): Natural leaf carving is actual manual cutting and removal of a leaf’s surface to produce an art work on a leaf. The process of carving is performed by artists using tools to carefully remove the surface […]
How-To: Simple Space-Themed Group Costumes
Group and family costumes are fun, but can sometimes be hard to come up with or harder still to execute. These space-themed group costumes from Martha Stewart could not be simpler, and would work for a family with small kids or a group of older friends. It would be really cool to create a group […]
Amisha Gadani’s Blowfish Dress
Amisha Gadani made this “Blowfish Dress,” a kinetic interactive outfit that inflates like a blowfish. While browsing through a book of marine images, I was inspired by the sudden and quite comical defense system of blowfish. I began to muse of ways in which humans could benefit from and appropriate these behaviors and so came […]
Passy-pass, a USB password storage device
Minneapolis hacker sigFLUP designed this cool box for managing her passwords. This automatically stores generated and types all my usernames and passwords. It’s a pretty simple system. It’s a bitsy at89s5131 atmel 8051-ish microcontroller. This is a usb microcontroller and I’ve programmed it to look like a standard usb-keyboard. it has eeprom to store our […]