Julianne Smith has a tutorial for a knitted cowl neck scarf on her Garter Girl blog that I am planning on making. She came up with her own pattern after seeing a $750 Burberry cowl neck scarf in a magazine. I’ve never worn a cowl neck scarf before, but I feel like it would be […]
Ad agency GGRP recently built this cardboard record player.
It’s about time somebody made a media award that actually does something other than serve as a impromptu murder weapon. At this years SXSW festival, the Web Awards were built around Bleep Labs’ Thingamagoop 2, the analog synth toy (which now has digital/Arduino-control capability). Bleep Labs In the Maker Shed: Thingamagoop 2 Our Price: $100.00 […]
Jan of Daisy Janie shares how to use scraps of paper and cardstock to make these cute matchbook notebooks. I love that, because they are sewn by machine, the pages end up perforated and easy to tear out. Brilliant!
ASPEX, a company that makes desktop scanning electron microscopes (SEMs), is running a promotional campaign under which anyone can mail them a sample, which they will then image under one of their SEMs. The results will be posted on their webpage, and all for free! Challenge: Take advantage of their offer to produce publishable data. [via Boing Boing]
Cube.ly appears to be a 3D printer that uses 80/20 girders for the 2’x2’x2′ chassis, with all electronic components identical to those used in the Makerbot and Mendel. The project’s charter describes the project’s goals: Provide a fully capable 3D printer which can be used to directly manufacture or can be used to easily create […]
I’ve had a stack of t-shirts and a closet full of upholstery foam just waiting for a large-scale project like this to come along. Tiffany Threadgould and I show you how to make a comfy beanbag-style pillow chair from old t-shirts in this week’s CRAFT Video! Subscribe to the CRAFT Podcast in iTunes, watch it […]
