The folks from Bug Labs just sent word that they’ve posted photos of their soon to be shipping open source hardware platform … BUG is a collection of easy-to-use, open source hardware modules, each capable of producing one or more Web services. These modules snap together physically and the services connect together logically to enable […]
The editors of MAKE and CRAFT magazines picked their favorite projects and exhibitors and awarded blue ribbons at Maker Faire Austin. Here’ are our top picks – Link.
Flickr user mandalinarossa made two of these “Robotic Sweaters” on her knitting machine. I think they’re just splendid. – Link.
In today’s O’Reilly Digital Media newsletter, David Battino has a piece on how you can burn your own surround-sound DVDs without spending a fortune on encoding software. In short, you load six mono WAV files into an AC3 encoder and then drag the resulting file to your DVD-burning program. Depending on the encoder’s capabilities, you […]
photo by Scott Beale / Laughing Squid I’d like to introduce Big Craftie, the supersized version of our magazine’s mascot, as designed, sewn, and stuffed full o’ love by Heidi Kenney of MyPaperCrane. He made his debut at Maker Faire in Austin this last October, but if you keep an eye out at various craft […]
This seems like it would make a fun re-craft project: Erdem Selek designed this plant holder/dish rack to capture that wasted clean water running off your hand-washed dishes. – [via] Link.
Our pal Datamancer has finally finished and posted details on his steampunk laptop. And it was worth the wait. Seriously cool. He also has a tutorial on making the brass faceplate he used on the mod and a page showing his gorgeous custom-made steampunk keyboards. I like how he has a customer testimonial on the […]
