Month: June 2006

Craft Videos

Craft Videos

Whip Up has collected links to some great crafting videos, anything from simple techniques to fun craft projects. There seems to be more and more popping up with the advent of video podcasting so we’ll be sure to keep on the look out. Here’s a crochet video from NexStitch and a cool video from Scrapbooking […]

DIY GPS logger

DIY GPS logger

Momnopole writes “In the current spate of discussions about GPS loggers I’m surprised you haven’t mentioned SparkFun’s kit. It not only provides a cheap kit for logging GPS to standard SD cards in a package smaller than a credit card but it also directly writes Keyhole Markup Language (.KML) files which may be instantly viewed […]

Refashioned Maker Faire Bag

Refashioned Maker Faire Bag

Casey Dougherty has added a couple of great photos to the CRAFT Flickr Pool of her refashioned Maker Faire tote bag that’s now a cool looking messenger bag. Look inside too to see a close up of the braided wires on the strap. Pure genius! The full how-to tutorial is here on Instructables so you […]

Wearable Cell Booth

Wearable Cell Booth

Phone booths are a thing of the past, reserved more for decor (stylishly red in London) or more for comic book super-heroes. Today, all of us are exposed numerous times throughout the day to others’ (aka strangers) private phone conversations while we are innocently waiting for the metro, walking on the sidewalk, or even while […]

RoboGames!

RoboGames!

Hope to see a lot of Makers on June 16-18, 2006 in San Fran! Walking androids, soccer robots, art bots, and the best flame-throwing, high-energy, steel-crunching robots in the world come to SF for the annual robot olympics! This year robots from 20 countries return to show off the worlds’ best technology and innovation. Combat […]

LED Poi

LED Poi

MAKE Flickr photo pool member Ehgradman is making velocity aware LED “Poi” – Poi comes from New Zealand’s Maori people, weighted balls are spun around, usually with ribbons on the end, adding super bright LEDs that change color / brightness based on speed sounds awesome, this looks like a great project! Link.