Map Quilts by Leah Evans
Label-Free posts about the work of textile artist Leah Evans, who creates hand-stitched, map-inspired quilts that encompass a variety of techniques, including reverse appliqué, needle felting, hand-dyeing and embroidery.
Month: December 2008
Happy Hanukkah
Hanukkah started last night at sundown so here is a Happy Hanukkah from Bent Objects. Mmmm latkes.
HOW TO – Breadboard memory game
From the MAKE: Flickr pool Brian shares his design for a simple sound-based memory game using a Picaxe microcontroller – What it does MemSounds is a sound based memory game played in rounds. In the first round it plays one of 4 different sounds at random. Each sound represents a different switch in the device. […]
MAKE Flickr pool weekly roundup
From the MAKE: Flickr pool Vibrobot sports adjustable nose-pot [above top-left] Visible atari punk console … in progress [above top-right] Experiments in breath transmisson [above bottom-left] Arduino solenoid drummer [above bottom-right]
CMU Snackbot
Travis Deyle wrote in about Snackbot, an in-progress human-robot interaction project at Carnegie Mellon: Back in May 2008 it was announced that CMU professors Sara Kiesler and Jodi Forlizzi (from the HCI Institute) and Paul Rybski (from the Robotics Institute) were awarded $500k in Microsoft’s Human-Robot Interaction funding to develop a social, snack-selling robot to […]
HOW TO – Gift Card Presentation Box
If you’re looking for a fun way to present gift cards during the holidays, Heather Bailey comes to the rescue with a free download for this beautiful gift box project.
HOW TO – LED gift subscription card
I was giving a subscription to MAKE this year to a friend for Christmas, so I printed out one of the print-at-home gift cards to announce it. Here’s my Flickr set showing how you can add LEDs to a card using conductive thread and a watch battery with holder. It’s pretty easy and uses the […]