Dale (our publisher) writes – I came upon this exhibit of old tractors and tools at the Mendocino County Fair, which ran this weekend in Boonville, California. I saw this unusual sign for the exhibit: I wondered what the heck it meant and learned that it was a phrase in the local Boontling dialect created […]
Nice article @ Forbes with a lot of familiar projects and faces from the world of MAKE/CRAFT and the DIY space! A blinking fashion statement… For all their talk of breaking glass ceilings, Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton have nothing on Leah Buechley. In the several years since she first sewed a circuit board to […]
In each volume of MAKE we have “major projects” these project pages are meaty step-by-step articles with start-to-finish photos, precise instructions and how-to learning that can range from making a VCR cat feeder to ariel kite photography. In MAKE volume 12 the projects are: Super Tritone Shop Whistle by William Gurstelle. This jazzy, compressed-air-powered whistle […]
Aimiee at Label-Free posted these wonderful images from National Museum of American History, which show a quilt created in 1876 by Ellen Harding Baker of Cedar County, Iowa, which depicts the Solar System. See more of the amazingness here.
Check out this sculpture by Nemo Gould, entitled Little Big Man. It has a little robot inside the radio cabinet body of the bigger one, and it appears as though the little one is driving the big one. The very simple movements bring a lot of life to this guy. Look at his site for […]
One thing I really love about the blog Laughing Purple Goldfish is the way it gets me thinking about how to create crafts from materials I already have. Take her recent post on “crazy yarn” for instance. What’s crazy yarn? Well… I took all my bits and bobs of leftover yarns which have been accumulating. […]
This looks like an easy way to add graphics to your next Arduino project. These color OLEDs are really nice, but they aren’t cheap. Check out the web site for more information and the code. How to: Control OLEDs with an Arduino More: Arduino Diecimila
