Happy National Inventors’ Day
In 1983, President Ronald Reagan declared Feb. 11, Thomas Edison’s birthday, National Inventors Day. Edison is an easy one. There are certainly lesser known inventors out worth celebrating. Any suggestions?
Year: 2013
How-To: Organize and Store Pearl Cotton
Are your embroidery supplies in need of some new-year organizing?
Suspended Hearts
Ruffled blog, a lovely source for everything pretty and wedding-related, have some really inspiring DIY ideas displayed in their recent photoshoot. I particularly love these simple wire hearts suspended over the cake. There isn’t a full tutorial on how they did it, but it looks like the thinnest of wire made into a heart, and hung by baker’s twine. Would be great for a wedding or any party.
Crayon Creatures Turns Kid’s Drawings Into 3D Printed Objects
Crayon Creatures is a delightful service that takes advantage of Shapeways’ full color sandstone 3d printing technology to turn your child’s drawings into actual objects. Just check out the giraffified Llama (above), or visit their shop for other examples like the classic Hamster in a Speedboat.
St. Louis Educators Learn to Solder and Program at a Popup Makerspace
On Saturday, February 9, St. Louis’ Disruption Department hosted a “Popup Makerspace” for teachers at EdcampSTL, a completely free unconference organized by educators. Over seventy teachers came to the temporary space and learned to solder, program a robot, and try their hand at the Ruby programming language.
Recipe: Guinness-Pretzel Truffles
This Guinness-pretzel truffles recipe from Sprinkle Bakes would win the hearts of both beer loving ladies and the manliest of men.
3D Printed Soft Robot Tentacle
A look at Matthew Borgatti’s recent “Print Your Own Robot: Part 7” which shows a working 3D-printed tentacle-bot in action!
