Mollie of Wild Olive shares these great portable ironing boards that were made for her by her father. For crafting, I like to be able to be in other parts of the house sometimes, especially when natural light (for photos) is needed. Small ironing boards are very handy, but still a little bulky.These are just […]
KRON Channel 4 (Bay Area station) ran a nice segment yesterday on Maker Faire Bay Area 2010. Check it out. Best of the Bay
Squishy Circuits is a project to teach kids about electricity and electronics by having them form circuits out of Play-Doh-like dough — with two varieties, conductive and insulating. Squishy Circuits were developed at the University of St. Thomas by undergraduate Samuel Johnson and Dr. AnnMarie Thomas. The purpose of their development is to facilitate electronics […]
There are some great presenters and exhibitors here at HOPE. Besides the usual suspects: Adafruit, EFF, Sparkle Labs, No Starch Press, there are a number of new faces. One of those is Brad Litwin, here with the folks from The Hacktory in Philadelphia, PA. We’ve covered Brad’s wonderful kinetic sculptures here before. In his basement […]
Dr Qui on Instructables shows us how to convert loose sawdust (surplus from woodworking) into compressed fuel briquettes for your wood stove (or wood burning hot tub).
Get your embroidery hoops ready! The Sublime Stitching Contest is challenging you to a Sublime Stitching mashup! I’m one of the judges for the contest and we want to see the most original, stitched-up combination of various patterns from Sublime Stitching themes. There’s a host of a fabulous prizes so don’t miss out on this […]
Many moons ago, we posted about the Facadeprinter citing some of its basic early paintball-blasted output. Since then, the device has apparently undergone some major refinements, now in its second prototype – The printer is equipped with an industrial PC which is running the specially programmed printing software. The machine is operated by touchscreen. Artworks […]
