How-To: Circle in Square Quilt Blocks
Kristen at the Martha Stewart Crafts Dept. shares how she put together the circle in square quilt blocks in this adorable baby gift for a friend’s child.
Year: 2010
Add Wi-Fi to Sprint Palm Pixi
Swapping out Palm Pixi Wi-Fi modules in this video from gitit20 is pretty straight-forward. Just pop out the old and plug in the new. No pesky serial numbers or setting required.
The power of museums and libraries by Marsha L. Semmel
Detroit is my hometown. I grew up here during the 50s and 60s, lived in a neat and homogeneous white, largely Jewish, neighborhood in Northwest Detroit, and walked to the tiny Arthur H. Vandenberg Elementary School every day from kindergarten through eighth grade, coming home for lunch at noon. My world changed when I (along […]
The RCA COSMAC 1802 “Membership Card”
You may have seen this little beauty floating through the interwebs. It’s an Altoids Tin-based COSMAC Elf, built around the classic RCA COSMAC 1802 microprocessor. It’s the prototype to a kit that Lee Hart has been developing. P. Todd Decker (Overland Park, KS) sent us a link to this video of his build of the […]
Papercraft Queen
The quality of craftsmanship and the attention to detail on these papercraft models of the band Queen are truly stunning. [via DudeCraft] We Are the Champions
Bristle (broom) Bot
Bill Gurstelle had a broom-based Bristlebot at Maker Faire Austin, but I never saw it in action. This one was built by Gregg Horton. He has an Instructable that shows you how he did it. Seems like you could easily add some sort of bumpers or other obstacle avoidance rigging so that you wouldn’t need […]
Online course from O’Reilly on Processing and Arduino
Create your own drawing and animation software-and learn basic programming and electronics skills at the same time. This engaging 5-week online course introduces you to two simple tools: Processing, a programming language for visual thinkers, and Arduino, a hardware platform for working with electronics. You’ll learn how to use these tools together to build something useful right away.