This is rather last minute (the deadline is 5pm PST Monday), but it was just sent to us and we thought some of you might find it interesting: Seattle, WA + aLIVe: a Low-Impact Vehicle exhibition 4Culture is seeking ideas that will inspire and engage the broader community in a conversation about transportation. This opportunity […]
Over on the Hands-On – Make: Electronics blog, our new best friend, Jim Kelly, continues to blaze his way through the experiments in Make: Electronics. It’s really fun to watch someone learning out loud. In Chapter 2, Experiment 8, Jim learned an all-important lesson in electronics, the need to be persistent in troubleshooting a problem. […]
I am loving the new patterns for sale by Anna at Mochimochi. Inspired by her tiny things posts, Anna rounds up her first Tiny Things Collection 1 Patterns ($5) which includes a set of 4 tiny patterns pictured above. You can also celebrate cute all year long with her cross-stitch pattern called Cute is Always […]
My friend Aaron decided to make an LCD photo frame for his husband, and it came out beautifully!
Here’s an older project by Micah Dowty, that I just found out about: a homebrew soft circuit RFID tag. Not content to just make a homebrew RFID reader using a Propeller microcontroller, he proceeded to design an RFID tag using only an ATtiny85 microcontroller and an inductor, and built an antenna for it using conductive thread.
The Tangente blog shares a neat story about finding a bag of vintage matchbooks in their bungalow shed. They turned their found treasure into art in the form of a collage, with details and more pictures offered.
You might know crafter Lee Meredith from her amazing knitting or recycle projects on her blog, Leethal.net or her fabulous crafty roundups on the Threadbanger blog. We got a chance to take a peek at her craft space in Portland, OR to see how she gets her crafty work done. Read on after the jump […]
