Building a robot army, one cuddly bot at a time… @ The Guardian Open Platform- Have you ever missed an important announcement from a friend because you only check Twitter late in the day and couldn’t be bothered to scroll through 8 hours of posts from your friends? Did feel guilty when your feeble “congratulations!” […]
Andrew Rapp made this neat application to help you quickly find appropriate colors to use for your LED project. He hooked up an RGB LED (that is, a single LED module that has red, green, and blue LEDs built into it) to a color picker dialog box on his computer, allowing him to change the […]
Crochet Adorned:Reinvent Your Wardrobe with Crocheted Accents, Embellishments, and Trims by Linda Permann Web Site: LindaMade We are so excited to be a part of Linda Perman’s blog tour for her new book Crochet Adorned! I’d like to call myself a natural born knitter but in the last few years while working at CRAFT, I’ve […]
Electro-Harmonix has been running an interesting series of demo vids that recreate far-out & famous sounds using only guitar + their pedals – and resident effectologist Bill Ruppert does a great job formulating each installment. Now handing out a spot-on recipe for “Wont Get Fooled Again”‘s spacey intro is neat and all – but pulling […]
Using conductive wool, Hannah Perner-Wilson made these crochet potentiometers. The metal beads in the center work as the wiper.
We keep hearing about all of these amazing devices and objects that other people are making with CNC tools like laser cutters, Shopbots, mills, and maybe you are feeling left out. You may be like the college student in the mid 1980’s who didn’t like completing papers on the typewriter and looking for a way to use the word processor. If today, you make a design for the part you need, how can you get it machined? You can leverage the power of 100 thousand garages.
Bitter Betty Blogs shares a tutorial for making these delicate doily and lace jellyfish. I imagine a a whole grouping of them hanging could be stunning!
