How-To: Removable Shoe Ruffles
Christy at A Lemon Squeezy Home shares a quick tutorial for whipping up cute, interchangeable ruffle accessories for your favorite pair of shoes.
Year: 2010
Urban Craft Uprising This Weekend in Seattle
Don’t miss Seattle’s biggest indie craft show, Urban Craft Uprising, this weekend! The crew there really puts on a great fair with lovely vendors, swag bags, hourly crafty giveaways, and free craft demos every hour, both days. Urban Craft Uprising Summer Show July 10-11 11am-5pm Seattle Center Exhibition Hall
Receiving weather satellite transmissions
Simon from Auckland, New Zealand, created his own station for receiving signals from weather satellites using a homemade antenna using coax and PVC. I really enjoyed his write-up, it’s very informative and contains tons of links.
Fabulous French Knot Monogram Project
For embroidery folks, the French knot tends to be a stitch you love or hate. (I’m in the “love” camp, primarily because of the trick I learned from Jenny Hart for fool-proof French knots) I love seeing French knots worked in interesting ways, because they create fantastic texture and depth, especially when they are used […]
Realtime video tracking with a pan-tilt camera
UMass Amherst hardware hackers Blake Foster, Rui Wang, and Erik Learned-Miller built this articulated realtime tracking rig using a GPU, Arduino, and FPV Pan-Tilt camera.
Letters From the Fab Academy, Part 6
In this periodic series of “Letters,” Shawn Wallace, member of AS220, the Providence, RI community arts and technology space, shares his experiences with the Fab Academy, a distributed learning collaborative, built on the infrastructure of the Fab Lab network. — Gareth Machine Design By Shawn Wallace One of the most exciting and challenging of the […]
Turning a hollow spiral candlestick
We’ve talked internally before about the fact that many of us are mesmerized by tutorial videos, even when we know nothing about the subject being demonstrated. I don’t know from woodworking, but I had a great time watching this five-part series on turning a hollow spiral candlestick on a router mill. Okay, so I might […]