Roxycraft, the maker of the cutest amigurumi patterns, also has a blog in town. Tamie Snow’s latest project is a photo tutorial on how to make this cute looking bead tree. Her pom-pom and furry trees are also super cute and could easily be glued onto the tree foam. Link.
Here’s a DIY version of the GorillaPod, a go anywhere flexible tripod for your camera – [via] – Link. Related: Imaging @ MAKE – Link. DIY Sony DSC-7 “tripod” – Link. The Monkey Arm – DIY Clamp tripod – Link.
Atlanta’s Indie Craft Experience is gearing up this Saturday for their Holiday Shopping Spectacular! Come by The B-Complex 1272 Murphy Ave SW on Sat from Noon to 8pm. The first 200 attendees will receive a swag bag with a copy of Craft in it along with other goodies! Link.
A few of our Mac toting makers sent in this tip on opening the new Microsoft Office doc format .docx (it doesn’t open natively now)… Alex writes – “I received one yesterday. Initial tests proved futile- no application wanted anything to do with it. But, after a little trial and error, I was able to […]
Two makers One cause Fünde Razor Here are some Guitar Hero controller guts transplanted into real guitars… part of the Funde Razor charity event to be held in Brooklyn on Wednesday 12/6. All proceeds from the raffle and competitions go directly, 100%, no overhead to the kids of The Children’s Hospital of Montefiore in the […]
Street Use has an interview with Bruce Simpson, pulse jet extraordinarre – “If there ever was a technology that calls out for street use, it is a jet engine. There is a small subculture of jet hackers. Among them is New Zealander Bruce Simpson who runs a cool website of his experiments. He tells how […]
Idan Beck & Rohit Gupta built an autonomous helicopter for their final project (schematics/source included)… “The purpose of this project was the design of a fully autonomous stabilization system intended for systems capable of intelligent programming and navigation. This means that the design focuses mainly on the control feedback systems that control the helicopter’s motors […]
