Hi Crafters – Just a reminder you have now through the weekend to enter in the Etsy + CRAFT contest by Monday, August 21st. Here’s the rules: Using whatever medium you desire (knitting, sewing, jewelry, beading, painting, photography, needlepoint, woodburning, anything!) we challenge you, the people of Etsy, to represent, reinterpret or remix CRAFT Magazine’s […]
Brickshelf has an entire gallery of NYC-turned-LEGO, I think the LEGO lady feeding the LEGO pigeons is my favorite – [via] – Link. More: LEGO articles, oddities and more – Link.
In this video Jake McKenzie, Matt Dalton, and Bre Pettis show how to put together a persistence of vision gadget that you can put on your bicycle. Persistence of vision is a perceptual process where your brain holds an image in it’s head for a moment. This process is what lets us think that movies […]
Here’s how to build a pretty neat looking sound meter, I just bought some ear projection that is rated for 30db, so this might be fun to test if they really work with a visual indicator… [via] – Link. More: MAKE electronics archives – Link.
Mmmmm….donuts. Everytime I visit the Sewdorky website I get a little hungry. Why? Because the donuts look so darn good. The art of crafting donuts by Sewdorky has come into fashion so much so that to counter all the sweet goodness, he’s also come up with the Sewdorky School of Dentistry which features large plush […]
Jewelry designer Nicola Vruwink’s got a link of handy tools as pendants in her Toolboxed line dubbed “Hardware to Wear”. Nifty charms are cool and you can also peruse here to start making your own simple necklace or charm bracelet. [ via ] Link. More: Craftster: Charm bracelets – Link. Craftster: Charm necklace & bracelet […]
Mrsuperpants made a nice chair for his home, from an ejector seat – “Ejector seat from a Jaguar aircraft bought off ebay about 18 months ago as a shell. Cleaned it up and laquered it to preserve the used look. Welded up a frame from scrap square tube to hang it on so it can […]
