HOW TO – Knitted Baby Moccasins
Why yes indeed, I do believe these might just be the cutest knitted moccasins for babies I’ve ever laid eyes on. Pattern available at The Purl Bee.
Month: November 2008
Visualize the sun’s patterns with a roving robotic instrument
The “Spiral Sunrise” by Esther Polak visualizes the sun’s rising and setting through a solar-powered robot that is tethered to a tree and moves in circular rings around the tree. The robot carries an open sandglass so that when it moves, it draws a line of sand and the thickness of the line depends on […]
Momp the Monstropus
Spotted in the CRAFT Flickr pool: Something about this guy (by Flickr user loveandasandwich) is just plain making me happy today. He’s a monster. He’s an octopus. He’s a…unicorn? I dunno, but he’s awesome.
Photo gallery – Turning trash to treasure
Last week at the Duxbury Student Union, Lee Pulis and I held a workshop on using trash to learn about electricity, design and mechanical devices. We used CD drives from old computers. Inside the drives we found motors, gears, switches, and lots of interesting looking stuff. The main tools were small phillips head screwdrivers and […]
Maker’s Notebook light mod build photos
I took my first stab at sewing the conductive thread from the Lilypad e-sewing kit into my Maker’s Notebook bookmark ribbon. I have gotten some great suggestions from readers on switches and wires and things, which I have yet to try. Currently, I’m just putting the coin battery into the battery holder to test out […]
Build: Mini-Theremin in under a minute
Assembly of the Gakken Mini-Theremin kit @ warp-speed – complete with error correction! Mini-Theremin
Sewing Machine to Visualize Sound
Jonah @ MAKE writes: The “Visible Sound” project attempts to create a physical version of the sound around it by sewing sound waves in realtime. Although this was just a concept, we like ways of making invisible objects like sound waves into tangible forms. This concept model looks like a stereo faceplate on a modified […]