Handmade hacksaw frame
Flickr user Streetwalker credits this elegant handmade tool to Mr. Norberto Arriagada, a Chilean plumber.
Year: 2009
Naval battle at the Queens World’s Fair site
If you’re in NYC on Thursday and have a toga, this might be interesting…. During tougheconomic times, Imperial Rome distracted itself by staging naval battles inside a flooded Coliseum. Artist Duke Riley plans to wage a similar spectacle, only in Queens, N.Y. Next week, city parks engineers are set to fill up a vacant pool […]
The Big Picture – Robots!
36 amazing photos of the latest in robots from Boston.com Scientists, students and corporations continue their work around the world in the field of robotics, persistently improving and redefining their capabilities, interfaces and roles in society. Unmanned vehicles fly above war zones, telerobotics give humans a broader virtual presence and humanoid robots gain more parity […]
This Week in Craft Fairs
A weekly roundup of craft fairs, as well as a weekly roundup of call for entries to craft fairs.
Flashback: Solar-powered bike GPS
“During the summertime, I’ll disappear for hours on long rides to nowhere and back. But I have to admit on some rides I’ve gotten so lost I have trouble finding my way home. Happily I was able to build a solar-powered GPS mapping machine, mostly from old computer parts and software I had sitting around my office.” Author Brian Nadels words in the introduction to his DIY Outdoors piece, “Solar-Powered Bike GPS,” from the pages of MAKE Volume 10, are further testament to the fact that necessity is the mother of invention.
How-To: Men’s Shirt to Summer Dress
Here’s a really adorable dress made from a men’s shirt, via Threadbanger.
How-To: Toddler T-Shirt Dress
Kathleen from Grosgrain shows how to turn a toddler t-shirt into a cute dress with a simple scrap of fabric.