HOW TO – Make a garden hose vase
Quick, easy and clever project – make a vase from an old garden hose… [via] – Link. More: Check out milk carton lamps too @ Object of Desire (and other fun projects) – Link.
Month: August 2006
HOW TO – Make a garden hose vase
From Phil over on the MAKE Blog, “Quick, easy and clever project – make a vase from an old garden hose…” [ via ] Link.
Recorder stores TV “stills” on foil – and you peel them off!
This recorder from the 60’s took “stills” of your TV using a spinning magnetic foil disk and recorded them on foil that you peel off and store – this needs to be re(made) – “Popular Science 1964” – Link.
Paper and ribbons from American Crafts
I love paper! The prints and patterns that adorn the paper from American Crafts are really great. Check out the Bookshelf paper named after famous authors and the Sixth Avenue line named after NY places. Perfect for making your own cards or embellishments. They also make ribbon too. [ via ] Link.
Elements of Interactive Art: A Creative, Mac-Based Introduction” class in NYC
MAKE pal Peter Kirn @ Create Digital Motion (who also wrote a great MIDI primer in MAKE 07) is teaching a class in NYC, he writes – “I’ll be teaching a class on using the free Mac developer tool Quartz Composer to build DIY projects and interactive visual art driven by music, sound, and video. […]
Valance tutorial
Here’s a great easy project on making a window valance from Randi’s “I Have to Say” blog. From Randi, “Valances are an inexpensive and easy way to cover a window and add color to a room. I made some for my craft room and, including the curtain rod, they only cost me $12.00 and an […]
HOW TO – Make a TRAXMOD – SD card MOD player
Here’s a DIY MOD player you can build (MOD is sorta like a MP3, popular in the 80’s with Amiga computers) – “TRAXMOD is a small digital audio player using the Philips LPC2103 ARM7TDMI-S high speed microcontroller chip (prior versions were based on Microchip dsPIC DSPs). Currently, the ARM port can play raw wave audio […]