Maker Faire on Brink tonight
Set your DVRs, VCR cat feeders, and Arduino-controlled doggie dish dispensers for 10:30pm tonight. The Discovery Science Channel will be running a segment about Maker Faire on their Brink program. Brink: Science Channel
Year: 2009
Titanium (!) fire piston
Miami’s exodus125 makes these custom titanium (!) fire pistons himself. They’re pricey, and in point of fact there’s not much need for titanium (!) in this application when aluminum works just as well and costs way, way less, but still: Titanium! Besides its well-known physical properties–lightweight, noncorroding, and extremely tough–titanium (!) has also been proven […]
Amy Winehouse Tattoo Sweater
Artist Andrew Salomone embroidered this sweater for Amy Winehouse with all her tattoos in all the right places. It’d keep her publicly recognizable, but warm at the same time: About 9 months ago I heard something about Amy Winehouse having health issues. Then I noticed that Amy Winehouse never seemed to be wearing a lot […]
Furtive facilities for felines
We’ve blogged a similar idea before, and here’s an awesomely ridiculous product based on the same concept, but craftster Casstasstrophie’s implementation deserves extra points for style, and it has at least one new feature worth mentioning: the design forces the cat to trod upon an anti-tracking mat designed to remove stray litter from his or […]
How-To: Embroider End-Papers
Jenny Hart of Sublime Stitching and our Crafting a Business columnist shows you how you can even embroider the end-papers in a journal for more stitching to greet you. [ via Whip Up ] Also, in case you mi
How-To: Improved pocket stove
Instructables user Javin007 was disappointed with standard soda can stoves, so he decided to make a “penny stove” that’s more sturdy and less prone to being blown out.
How-To: Rag Quilt Letters
These rag quilt letters from Jessica of Happy Together aren’t just cute, they’re highly functional. As she points out, they are great learning toys for kids, look delightful strung together in alphabetical order, and can be used to create personalized banners for holiday seasons. See how she made the rag quilt alphabet over on her […]