Father’s Day Shrinky Dinks
Roots and Wings Co. blog show you how to do Father’s Day Shrinky Dinks in not one, not two, but three ways! Make a crocheted Shrinky Dink magnet, a hand print card, and a traced-hand key chain of the kiddies. .
Month: June 2009
BART swing photos
Check out the collection of photos from the use of this swing on at BART train in San Francisco. Fun! Via NOTCOT. More: Swing skirt
The solder test
From the MAKE Flickr pool Mr. Archer tries his hand at this cube soldering exercise – a simple yet effective test of skill. As detailed in Joseph J. Carr’s How To Design and Build Electronic Instrumentation, 2nd Ed – “There are several reasonable ways to learn the art of soldering, and all of them come […]
Book Interview and Giveaway: Drip.Dot.Swirl.
Drip.Dot.Swirl. by Von Glitschka Vonsterbooks.com Artist Von Glitschka has a new book out called Drip.Dot.Swirl. 94 incredible patterns for design and illustration. The illustrative pattern book features a large collection of patterns to inspire you in your design work. In fact, the book comes with a companion DVD of all the vector patterns so you […]
Instructables Father’s Day guide
Instructables has a roundup of cool projects you can make for/with your dad; if you find the right one maybe you can get him the instructions, tools, and materials to make it himself! More: DIY for Dad: Happy Father’s Day from MAKE, a gift guide for Dad
Learn to program music in Pure Data
Pure Data, or Pd as it’s known, is an open source, visually oriented programming environment similar to the popular MAX/MSP software. One of the only issues with going with free Pd is the scant amount of formal documentation available to newcomers. Thankfully, Johannes Kreidler’s loadbang Programming Electronic Music in Pd provides a bookfull of tutorials […]
3D printing workshops in Philadelphia
There are two 3D printing workshops happening in Philadelphia soon: Fab@Home 3D printing workshops Fab@Home creator, Evan Malone will give a workshop on 3D Printing and 3D Modeling for the Fab@Home Fabber. Attendees will be able to work hands-on with the Fab@Home machine. The workshop is Wednesday, June 17 from 6 to 8PM at Klein […]
