I’m a fan of the teeny tiny things in the world. This aquarium was born in response to a challenge: when recent news came out on the discovery of the smallest fish in the world, a friend from our forum commented “I’m thinking that if this fish ever gets commercialized, Rony is bound to make […]
Check out this great video found by O’Reilly Editor Brian Sawyer of an ESPN profile of Boise State’s football star, Ian Johnson who’s crocheting hobby has turned into a great side business as well as helping him hone his great sense of patience on the field. Link. Update: NCAA prohibits Ian Johnson from crocheting for […]
Miss Amy at Kitschy-Koo has a tutorial and recycle project on how to make your own envelopes from just about anything — pages from old magazines, old cards, photos, and more. Link.
Kristin La Flamme shows you how to make a Süße Sac. The pattern is based off a Japanese craft book but made here larger so you can tote around all your goods. I love the added yo-yo embellishments. Link.
A year ago, a reader with the handle of bigthistle posted one of our favorite hacks to hacks.oreilly.com, describing how to access restricted websites using the Google Translate feature. Acknowledging that our readers often have better ideas than we do, we recently asked Wei-Meng Lee to take a closer look at this technique, and he […]
Dorkbot meetups tend to happen on first Wednesdays. People doing strange things with electricity gather to share ideas and get support on half made projects around the world. I’m going to be at the one in NYC that will have a focus on music that looks really good. Do you have a dorkbot in your […]
Craft Lab premieres this week on HGTV! (10am PST/EST) Host Jennifer Perkins (Naughty Secretary Club and Austin Craft Mafia) gives you a daily dose of cool craft projects while reporter Cat Greenleaf travels the country in search of crafty challenges. The rest of the episodes this week are: Wednesday – Painting With Crayons with Traci […]
