Turkey Window Display
Jenelle from Sew Occupied made this enormous turkey softie and oven for a window display contest. She won 2nd place.
Month: December 2008
Thingamakit goes visible
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Matt the modulator housed a thingamakit bleep-synth in an the box from a Velleman amplifier kit. Nice use of available resources – and it looks pretty dang cool to boot! – Thingamakit_2 on Flickr More: ThingamaKIT build photos
STEIM is safe
Great news! Looks like the pioneering electronic performance arts center is safe for now, due in no small part to all the support sent from around the world – The Dutch Council for Culture has reversed their initially negative decision. They were without a doubt impressed by the well over 1000 insightful, eloquent, personal letters […]
HOW TO – Philly Phanatic
Joan De Lurio came up with this knitted Philly Phanatic during the 2008 World Series and is now offering the pattern for free. You can also find the pattern on Ravelry. Go Philly!
Make a a Peristaltic pump
Bre writes – Zach Smith, fellow NYCResistor and Founder of The RepRap Research Foundation decided that for Lazzzorbattle 2008, he wanted to do something cool. In QCAD, he mocked up a peristaltic pump and after about 5 versions, he had it working and the entire design is cut out of 12″ x 12″ x 1/4″ […]
Converting holiday lights to LED
William sent in this page detailing how to replace the bulbs of Christmas light strings with LEDs – I begin by cutting the light sockets off the string about three inches from the socket and I store them in a box. There is usually a wire that goes from one end of the string to […]
Coding your own urban renewal
You’ve probably already heard of Outside.in, the “hyperlocal” news, information, and conferencing service created to serve cities, towns, and neighborhoods throughout the US. John Geraci, one of the co-founders of Outside.in, has launched a new site called DIYcity. The idea here is to use the crowdsourcing power of the interwebs and open source/Web 2.0 software […]