On today’s episode of Bre Petis’ I Make Things, my pal Nick Farr of HacDC demonstrates the Polyalphabetic Substitution Cypher Slide Rule (PASCSR) he made and uploaded to Thingiverse. Thingiverse launches today, too. It’s a site, created by Bre and Zach Hoeken, where you can share your digital designs/object files with the world. Cool. I […]
Keyka shares her pattern for making these adorable embroidered gift bags, inspired by those huge sacks carried by bank robbers in cartoons.
A while ago I converted a 1934 folding camera into a USB web cam. I brought it with me to Maker Faire Austin 2008 and a lot of people seemed to like it. In fact, a lot of people wanted to know how I made one. I promised them I would do a how-to on […]
Aliceblue made this embroidered Russian prison tattoo tea towel for a friend. Apparently the tattoo’s orginal “owner” was imprisoned for pouring cabbage soup on her neighbor’s head.
Even a crabby curmudgeon like me enjoys making a hand print turkey now and again for Thanksgiving. Bella Dia has a tutorial for how to turn your hand print turkey into a hand print turkey softie.
Mason-Dixon Knitting Outside the Lines by Kay Gardiner & Ann Shayne Buy the book ($19.77) Mason-Dixon Knitting blog This isn’t your average book of knitting patterns. Kay Gardiner and Ann Shayne have wit, insight, and “true confessions” about knitting that makes Mason-Dixon Knitting Outside the Lines read more like a sketchbook or journal than a […]
The by-no-means-subtle flash and racket of Zippy’s squarewave cylinder – …here’s my brand new homemade analog synth, inspired by the Thingamagoop, but designed from scratch by Zippy. It’s controlled by three mercury tilt-switches and of course, buttons-and-knobs. Fun to play! The sound changes as you rotate the thing. It’s brain is seven square-wave oscillators: three […]
