Fourth of July: Firecracker Party Favors
Cindy of Skip to My Lou is making these cute firecracker party favors from Country Living Magazine using vintage images. Link.
Month: July 2007
Sign Up for Felt School October 27-28 in Harveyville, KS
Nikol Lohr, author of Naughty Needles bought several unused school buildings in Harveyville, Kansas dubbed “The Harveyville Project” and is opening up her doors to Knitgrrl Shannon Okey where she’ll be teaching Felt School from October 27-28. Shannon writes: Felt School’s all-inclusive price is: $300/person, double occupancy, and the workshop fee includes all classes, use […]
HOW TO – Tell Temperature with Crickets
The always-entertaining Robert Krulwich had a fun segment on ABC World News Monday night about using cricket chirps to calculate temperature. Apparently, as male crickets heat up, they chirp more rapidly. By counting the chirps, especially of one species, the Snowy Tree Cricket (Oecanthus fultoni), you can get a fairly accurate temperature. Here’s how: Find […]
Etsy Labs: Cupcakes Take the Cake, Saturday July 7th
If you’re in Brooklyn this Saturday, head on over to the Etsy Labs for an afternoon of arts and crafts themed around everyone’s favorite snack, the noble cupcake. Bring supplies or just bring ideas and an empty stomach. The event is sponsored by Crumbs bakery, yum! Please rsvp@etsy.com. For info on other upcoming events, visit […]
(Free) posters for school science and technology – electrical symbols, circuits and safety
Steve sent in these great (free) posters you can download and print out… Link.
LED Picnic Blanket
Learn how you can make an LED picnic blanket with hard center serving surface created by pointcloud on Instructables. Link.
Nintendo DS current consumption
Tim (almost) fried his DS, here’s how he figured out the current consumption for all sorts of components and more – So I was busy homebrewing on my NDS, even bought myself a DSerial board to use it as an ultraportable serial/debug console. I had a few ideas for the much faster, native parallel interface […]