Check out Daniel Andrade’s binary LED clock built using the Arduino. It’s well thought out, including controls for setting the time and hibernating with the LEDs off. Each hour and minute digit is represented in binary form, so it’s actually fairly easy to read once you get accustomed to it. The circuit and source are […]
I love the swirly, organic feel of this knitted skirt Mintyfresh worked up during a recent 30-hour flight (!) to Singapore. More details and pix at her blog.
Dale Dougherty, editor and publisher of MAKE and CRAFT, is on the road this week and writes: On a visit today to the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, I got a quick tour of the collections, a place where objects not in active use are stored. One thing caught my attention: a wooden […]
Someone has created this fun Flickr Pool of photos of common (and not so common) objects that resemble the faces of robots. Looks Like A Robot
photo by Jessica Miller I was pleasantly surprised to open the LA Weekly today and find a fun article about plush food collector Sarah Jo Marks. Marks curated last winter’s Stuffed show at Munky King, which was a sight to behold. I especially love how this article gives so many shout-outs to talented plush makers […]
Just what I’ve always wanted for my desert cardboard sculpture garden: instructables user delappe created this tutorial for turning your Gandhi avatar (or any 3D avatar, really) into a cardboard sculpture. Via Collin @ MAKE.
My friend has been carrying around this empty shell of a Micro Muzak Model 1008 for years with the intention of converting it in to something… someday. Apparently this was used in a university to pump the college station through all the buildings and had long since been left to fall in to ruins. Using […]
