HOW TO – Embellish Knits
Berlin’s Whimsy shows you how to perk up your knitted goods with a cute flower embellishment. [via Whipup]
Month: May 2008
Microcontroller Programming – A Primer @ MAKE
Microcontroller Programming by Sparkle Labs. Easy-to-program chips tell circuitry to do what you want. Page 159 – MAKE 4. Read this article now in the MAKE digital edition. Or get MAKE 04 from the Maker store and/or subscribe to MAKE (use code CMAKE for $5 off USD). You can view all our in depth Primers […]
Invent The Future Yourself @ Forbes
Invent The Future Yourself – Forbes.com Fritz Grobe is working fast. He doesn’t have long before he and Stephen Voltz will drop 624 Mentos into 104 liters of Diet Coke, unleashing enough energy to pump artificial sweetener and carbonated water all over a crowd of hundreds of cheering onlookers at the annual Maker Faire in […]
Felt House
From the CRAFT Flickr group comes this sweet felt house, which Flickr user Wishfactory created for a friend’s birthday. It’s a replica of the house he used to live in. What a wonderful idea!
Rube Goldberg 2008: The Makers and Their Machines (Video)
Here’s a video of my visit to the 2008 National Rube Goldberg Machine Contest at Purdue University last month. It was a lot of fun to hear the participants talk about their creations and to see them running their machines. Not since the classic 1982 video game BurgerTime has the task of making a burger […]
CRAFT: 07 The Shoe Issue – On Newsstands Now!
CRAFT: 07 is on newsstands now! We celebrates spring in high style, devoting our theme section to shoes! And can we talk here, who doesn’t like shoes? Now you can crafty your own by learning two ways to mod Converse Hightops: knit one pair and swap the fabric on another. Fashion a pair of ribbon-tie […]
The Arduino Flush-O-Matic
I am not really sure why the toilet should be connected to an Arduino, but apparently Mau has a legitimate reason. I like the mechanics of this project, and it just goes to show you that anything can be, and will be, computer controlled eventually. Thanks Mau! Read more about the Arduino toilet [Google translation]