AngryRedhead has a brilliant project over on Instructables: shoes, spraypaint, and Sugru make some devilish custom shoes! This Instructable shows how to make a pair of stylized shoes using Sugru and spray paint and how to add treads to shoes that are a bit slippery. Most of the instructions are on the high heels as […]
My eyes almost popped out of my head when I first saw Nathalie Miebach‘s incredible woven sculptures, and my mind boggled further when I found out that they depict environmental data gathered by the artist. The subtitle of one of the above pieces is “tango between air, land, and sea,” and her work does indeed […]
Rashida of I Heart Linen guest blogs on Petite Purls with a super cute coin purse tutorial using hinged purse frames. I love the mix of fabric prints she’s using, especially that apple one. [via whipup] Rashida writes: Springy hinge purse frames are so fun to use. They come in various sizes and are perfect […]
In what I think is one of the first projects to make use of the extra features in the Arduino Uno, forum member ant.b posted instructions on how to reprogram the device so that it shows up as a USB joystick. This means that you can now make custom input devices for computers that can […]
Good news everyone! LVL1 is going to deliver a box of used balloon gizmos to Europe! What’s that you say? Europe has had enough of our crap already? I think not! We’ve officially started the LVL1 White Star Trans-Atlantic Balloon Service with one goal: To send a small robotic balloon across the Atlantic Ocean and […]
By Future Craft Collective There’s nothing like an image of the classic circus strong man complete with handlebar mustache, showing off his amazing strength! Transform this vintage circus entertainer into an easy kid’s costume with this simple how-to.
This past weekend I went on a group bike tour of five compost sites in Western Queens, NY, in the neighborhoods of Astoria, Long Island City and Sunnyside. The sites were as diverse as the borough’s residents, ranging from barrels in community gardens to a one-acre rooftop farm. And the compost was as stinky and […]
