How-To: Photo to Fabric Portrait
Stephanie the Multi-Tasking Mama is guest blogging on Crafty Chica, where she shows us how to convert a photo of a beloved pet into a fabric portrait suitable for a stocking or even framing!
Month: December 2009
Vintage Haberdashery Themed Wreath
The details in this vintage haberdashery themed wreath from Maximum Rabbit Designs are fantastic. Check out her blog post to read about all the special things she included on the wreath. I’m particularly fond of the tape measure rosettes.
How-To: City Dweller Chicken Tractor
Instructables user jrossetti writes: In this instructable, I’ll outline the requirements for a small chicken tractor for the backyard chicken enthusiast, such as myself, and describe the process of building it. After seeing a lot of chicken tractors on the internet for outrageous prices, I decided it’d be better for me to build one myself, […]
Virtual iPhone in AR app on iPhone
This augmented reality app from Ogmento for Orange Israel features an interactive virtual iPhone hovering over a stylized marker. The demo allows the user to control the virtual iPhone through its touch interface and superimposes it over a realtime camera view.
Cloak of Invisibility, here we come?
From PhysOrg.com: A team of researchers at the FOM institute AMOLF (The Netherlands) has succeeded for the first time in powering an energy transfer between nano-electromagnets with the magnetic field of light. This breakthrough is of major importance in the quest for magnetic ‘meta-materials’ with which light rays can be deflected in every possible direction. […]
Merry Christmas from all your pals at Maker Media!
Who’s excited about Santa? It won’t be long now before some imposing stranger with gin blossoms, in a garish flaming-red suit, who’s been spying on your children all year, sneaks into your house to wolf down milk and cookies and feed your produce to his coterie of flying woodland creatures. I know I’m stoked! But, […]
Thorium as the future of nuclear power?
Interesting article over on Wired about Kirk Sorensen and the community served by his Energy From Thorium blog. To hear these people tell it, Thorium fission in fluid fuel reactors offers an idyllic vision of a boundless-energy-from-the-atom type future no one has really believed in since the early 50s. Thorium, reportedly, is abundant, safe, highly efficient as a nuclear fuel, and produces waste that is radioactive only for a few hundred years instead of tens of thousands. Also, the waste products from the Thorium cycle cannot be reprocessed to make bombs, which is the sole reason why it was not chosen as the basis for American nuclear energy technologies back in the 50s.