Joshua points us to screensilk.com’s free give away of their high-resolution version of the Elegant Star Pattern pack that are extra brushes and patterns you can add to your Photoshop software. The pack features 10 popular patterns. Link.
Craft In America, is a PBS 3 part documentary that’s going to air on May 30th at 8, 9, and 10pm. You can check out a preview of the documentary here. Craft In America will also be a traveling 7 city exhibition, a web site, as well as a book coming out in the Fall […]
Peter writes- Bob Collier has been reimagining thumb pianos, making his own instruments into unusual cases (camera and jewelry cases), adding fake fur, and integrating features like “self-sampling” voice recorders, amps, and speakers. With some light effects, the instruments take on entirely new characters, and he’s worked up a mind-boggling number of variations on the […]
Tim’s back with a new KnowHow show – how to make a hammock Link.
Hacked Gadgets reveals the hidden world of magnetization with magnetic viewing paper, Alan writes – We can’t see magnetic flux lines but with an inexpensive piece of Magnetic Viewing Paper we can easily visualize what we are missing. I took the motor magnet out of an old 5 1/4 floppy drive and was amazed at […]
DNA worldwide can print your genetic code on your shirt, help figure out who’s related to who and they claim they can tell a new Mother if their kid is a boy or a girl 6 weeks in… Once a woman has taken the test, she sends her sample directly to the company’s laboratory for […]
Chris writes in – As a service to those Makers, like me, who are gradually becoming less and less young, here is a hack to make a pair of reading glasses that you can wear over your “normal” glasses (assuming nearsightedness is normal for you). instructables : Clip-On Metal Framed Reading Glasses – Link.
