I often have trouble finding pants that fit my kids in the waist and the length, and we end up trying to cinch up the waists to keep the pants from falling down. So I’m taking special note of this tutorial for cute adjustable belts for kids. The tutorial is part of the fun Celebrate […]
Unfold Fab announced the first successful printing of a ceramic vessel by a 3D printer. Interestingly, one of the biggest challenges seems to be eliminating the bubbles in the clay. However, what I want to know is, how to fire the resulting pieces? We took some time to play around and get used to the […]
Cathe Holden of Just Something I Made found a way to incorporate a favorite collectible into a useful family tool. She’s scanned in and adjusted a vintage measuring tape and has offered it for download and shows how to craft it in to a fun way to keep track of changing heights!
Matt Mets @ Make: Online writes: To help keep her dog Tucker warm and visible at night, Hack Pittsburgh member Val made him this awesome light-up dog hoodie. After fashioning a hoodie for him using her leet sewing skills, complete with a silk-screened skull for decoration, she added a light-detection circuit that turns on a […]
Despite only a few weeks in the planning, TC Maker‘s faire featured 16 exhibitors and attracted more than 500 visitors — not bad for the hacker collective that didn’t even have a space 2 months ago. There was a display of movie prop replicas, a display of circuit-bent gadgets, a wind turbine with blades ground […]
Here’s a handy (and inexpensive) way to wrangle and store those tiny seed beads that can make a crafter’s clean up misery. [via Pin Tangle]
This “Live Checking Card” concept design from Yoon Jin-Young, Lee Jun-Kyo, Lee Young-Ho, and Kim Jin-Yi has been getting a lot of bandwidth around the tubes, lately. Ignoring the details of technical implementation, the notion itself is straightforward: Your check card shows you exactly how much money you have available to spend and tracks that amount, essentially in real time. This idea won the prestigious red dot design concept award for 2009.
