Check out the freshly launched first issue of Etsy’s e-zine, The Storque! With lots of crafty news on the handmade world, how-tos and spotlights, you can catch up on all the latest including current features from our own Phil Torrone in this MAKEzine Kit it Out! article and Bre’s screen printing video with the Etsy […]
BoosterVision is selling a 1-watt transmitter/receiver and CCD camera system for high-power rocketry. Not bad for $280. An included 12db Radome RX antenna increases range up to 15,000 feet. One Watt Hi-Power Transmitter / Hi-Gain Antenna System – [via] Link Related: Model, sport rocketry reference source – Link Estes educator – Free resources for model […]
This week’s Crafty Daisies embroidery lesson covers the last in basic stitches. You’ll learn how to make the granitos stitch, blanket stitch, herringbone, and the double herringbone stitch. Link. Related: Crafty Daisies: Embroidery Lesson #1 – Link. Crafty Daisies: Embroidery Lesson #2 – Link. Crafty Daisies: Embroidery Lesson #3 – Link.
As the name implies, Engineering TV is a series of webisodic programs dedicated to various technologies, techniques, and research efforts of interest to electronics, robotics and design engineers, or amateurs interested in these subjects. Engineering TV – [via] Link
Here’s a quick how-to on making beautiful colored globes of ice (which involves little more than freezing colored water in a balloon), but it’s something I’d never thought of and would make an interesting party decoration. Ice Gems – Link
Have a toddler in your life who loves beaded jewelry (necklaces, bracelets), but who just can’t resist popping them and splattering the beads everywhere? Sick of your buttons popping off? Use thread made out of Kevlar! Available on Amazon – [via] Link.
I’m really surprised that telepresence/telerobotics hasn’t caught on more than it has. IRobot was R&Ding this tech nearly a decade ago. And the tools to make it happen have only gotten cheaper and more widely distributed. In this story, reverberating around the Interwebs, Ivan Bowman, a computer programmer, works from his living room in Nova […]
