Dollar Store Table Settings
If you’re hosting an intimate New Year’s Eve bash (instead of a wild and crazy party for the masses), these charming dollar store table settings from A Little Hut could be just the ticket.
Month: December 2009
Learn to write games using Python
Interested in learning how to program, or know someone who is? Then you might want to check out Al Sweigart’s free book, Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python. Now in it’s second edition, the Creative Commons-licensed book was written to help anyone, young or old, learn to program in the powerful Python language.
Make, Not Bake, a Forest Cake
It’s a holiday vacation week at O’Reilly Media, the parent of Craftzine. And in that vein, I’m taking a smidge of a break today from creating DIY’s. Instead I am sharing my first-ever, and perhaps most favorite, project that I wrote while I was still just guest blogging for Craftzine. This forest centerpiece is so […]
Carrot Pineapple Mini Cupcakes
My 1 year old daughter Chloe doesn’t like sweets. She refused to take another bite out of her birthday cupcake we got from Miette at her birthday party. I decided for Christmas I was going to make carrot pineapple mini cupcakes by weelicious so that she could have a special treat that was a bit […]
Piano that speaks!
By way of Alden Hart at HacDC comes this amazing computer-controlled analog piano that speaks, *almost* comprehensible English, when a frequency spectrum of a child reading the text of the Proclamation of the European Environmental Criminal Court is transferred to robot fingers that press the piano’s keys. Creepy. Cool. [Thanks, Alden!] Speaking Piano – Now […]
Felt control panel
I’m working on a felt electronics control panel. It has two knobs and four pushbuttons. I first needle felt a little cylinder, then bore out a channel in which to fit a standard button or knob. They’re delightfully fuzzy, yet firm to the touch. See more at my Flickr. More: Big Fluff Pi vs. Music-Industrial […]
Lamp turns on with floaty magnet
I’m digging the way you turn on this fiat lux lamp by designers Constance Guisset and Grégory Cid. In place of the standard light switch, you place an orb under the lamp, which then (presumably) uses a magnetic field to hold it in place.