Hillary Lang of Wee Wonderfuls has her Winter Stitchettes in her shop now. There are 4 cute cuddly patterns: Parker’s Purchases, Cuddled Up Charlie, Izzie on Ice and Finn’s Friend. Each comes with an instruction sheet and iron on transfers of the designs. Link.
Khadija of BARAKAH LIFE Handmade has a tutorial on how to make beautiful marbled paper from melted wax. [ via ] Link. Related: The Paper Marbling Kit from Chronicle Books – Link.
We’ve seen all the record vinyl crafts such as bowls, bags, or clocks but not this one! Treehugger’s found an iPod case made with old 45’s records, lined with cork and recycled felt with a clear protective plexiglass window. Link.
Moonstitches has a photo-tutorial on how to make these easy and fun book covers. Love the wooden button accent! Link.
Duane Wessels, one of the authors of Make Projects: Small Form Factor PCs, was quoted in a piece about the recent DNS server attacks: The motive for the attacks was unclear, said Duane Wessels, a researcher at the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis at the San Diego Supercomputing Center. “Maybe to show off or […]
Matt writes – This project captures a mouse by having a solenoid (electromagnet) drop a bucket over the mouse. The bucket is triggered by the mouse interrupting one of the infrared emitter/detector pairs around the bait. The enclosure that holds the electronics is mounted directly over the bait. Ok, so the “bucket” is actually a […]
“Never underestimate the bandwith of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway”-Andrew S. Tanenbaum. We’ve got a really fast connection at work, but I still occasionally run into situations where it’s faster, and often more economical, to overnight data on an external hard disk instead of transfering it over the wire. Even […]
