HOW TO – Make your own stitch markers
Sheep in the city has tutorial on making charming stitchmarkers. Link.
Month: November 2006
Basketball chair!
Great chair design from Tal Shwartz – “”3pts.” is a simple-fun chair, made of 2 wood parts [lazer-cut birch] and 3 basketballs. this chair can be used both indoor and outdoor, perfect for any kind of house party, and you can always take one of the balls for a quick game…” [via] – Link.
Tim Fort – Kinetic art…
Tim Fort has a couple incredible kinetic art sculpture video floating around… [via] – & here’s another.
Open-source grid controller – the monome (video)
We had the folks from monome out to Maker Faire earlier this year, and here’s a demonstrates of some hardware hacks to their open-source grid controller (the 40h… Brian writes – “The monome 40h is a reconfigurable grid of backlit buttons– the firmware is open source, and we encourage hardware hacks. We’ve also posted extensive […]
Fred Eerdekens typography with light and shadow
Artist Fred Eerdekens uses light and shadow to make incredible typography – [via] – Link. Pictured here, Neo Deo. Photo by m-c. Related: Shadow Play, Fred Eerdekens – Link. Fred Eerdekens – Link.
HOW TO – Turn a Photo into a mailable mosaic
Our pals over at Photojojo have an easy project that turns your photo into mailable postcards… Bryan writes – “This tutorial will take you through some simple steps to create a 24-day-long photo care package for your pal. You’ll pick an image, slice it into 24 postcard-sized pieces, and mail one each day until your […]
Lifehacker the book now available for pre-order
Congrats to Gina & our pals over at Lifehacker, their new book is shipping soon! – “Lifehacker: 88 Tech Tricks to Turbocharge Your Day is a companion to the Lifehacker.com web site, a collection of the best how-to’s from the site archives. I call it an “open source book” because its almost 2 years worth […]