Twist-It-Up Bandeau Top
Threads Magazine shows you how to make a simple twist-it-up bandeau top that can also be worn as a tunic. [ via Bleu Arts ]
Month: May 2008
When MAKE ships until 2010, covers and more…
We had a reader email us and ask when they would see each MAKE and what would be on the cover, good questions so we thought we’d share the answer with everyone! We have on sale dates for newsstands for the rest of this year and into 2010. But we don’t know what will be […]
HOW TO – Make Tin Can Covers
Meg from Elsie Marley wrote a tutorial for making tin can covers with hand embroidered designs. She also includes some designs that you can use for the embroidery. Related Tin Can Organizers
HOW TO – Sew a Cape Dracula
Geri from Sewable just finished a free pattern for Cape Dracula. It doesn’t look so much Transylvanian to me as it looks plain awesome. Thanks Meg.
Arduino Wave Shield pitch-control demo
Limor of Adafruit Industries posted this video demonstrating how the Waveshield kit can turn Arduino into a sample-bending audio tool. Consider for a moment that potentiometer replaced by – oh let’s say – photocells or maybe a force-sensing resistor. If you’ll excuse me – I’ve got some experimentation to go do – Wave Shield for […]
HOW TO – build a talk box
For those unfamiliar – a talk box device allows the user to modulate an instrument’s waveform by changing the shape of their own mouth (see the oft-cited “Do You Feel Like We Do” by Frampton) Though many examples can be found on the ‘nets, this instructable shows a nice straightforward method for building your own […]
The Making of the Pentultimate
Cool puzzle (and making of) over @ Puzzleforge, thanks Erin! In early 2007, I made a pencil sketch of a deep cut vertex turning icosahedron puzzle. I later realized this ground had been covered by others before in dodecahedron form, including Christopher Pelley, who coined the name “Pentultimate”. The first Pentultimate was completed on March […]