Sure, we all know not to eat silica gel when it comes in small packets in shoeboxes and electronics packaging, but what can you do with it besides throw it away? Impact Lab has some suggestions: Protect personal papers and important documents by putting some gel in a baggie wherever these are stored. Keep with […]
This week’s installment of Your Crafty Comments is a special edition focused on readers’ favorite craft tips. We put out a call on Facebook and Twitter for tips, and received some great feedback. Here are some of our favorites. Margaret Krueger writes: Take your time to do it right and dont be afraid to ask […]
And we’re back with our tenth installment of Your Comments. Here are our favorites from the past week, from Make: Online, our Facebook page, and Twitter. John Gomm did some hacking and came up with an… er, interesting adaptation of the Most useless machine: I rotated the design so it would open as a normal […]
I swear Angela Sheehan and I must have been separated at birth. Her LilyPad Arduino pillow is so awesome, all that’s left to do is sew in some components and conductive fabric for a comically large prototyping platform. [via CRAFT] More: Angela Sheehan talks about Soft Circuit Saturdays How-To: LED Throwie Jellyfish
Craig Smith of South Milwaukee wrote in to share his excellent hobbit door he built in his fence: At my backyard fence to the alley, I did something a bit different for the gate; A Hobbit door. The fence panels had higher and lower stringers added so the curved cut would allow the small segments […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool: I’m not sure what Osaka, Japan’s Naniwa craftsmanship festival is, but it looks like a mini maker faire. Lots of fascinating projects, I wish I could have been there!
Regardless of what you may think of either platform, it’s fun to see what others will do to get what they want. In the accompanying video Taimur Asad from Redmond Pie demos an alpha version of Frash running on an iPhone 4. If you want to try this yourself, check out this how-to.
