Tie One On is a monthly apron show and tell blog. This month, January, is all about recycling, to reuse something you might want to throw out. Use old shirts, skirts, pants, whatever you have around to make an apron and then submit your finished apron project to the site. Link.
More on recycling old sweaters…Here’s a quick way you can make yourself a cool funky scarf by felting arm pieces from old sweaters and sewing them together. Mix up the colors and textures for your own personal touch. Thanks Dolin! Link.
Yahoo/Reuters has a story about the NYC Dorkbot meeting held yesterday that we posted about earlier in the week – at the meeting there were talks about the process of installing a $2 RFID tag in your hand, why you would do something like this, the necessary materials, different tag options, and what other people have been doing with these tags. Link. Also see our interview with one of the folks mentioned in the story.
Make Flickr photo pool member DrewSteele writes “I went dumpster diving while at the ski resort in maine, the first dumster I hit yielded a working DVD player, so today I emptied out the insides of the DVD player and rearanged them inside this cute little red box…kinda cool.” Link. I have a couple old DVD players, I think I might give them a new shell too.
Skype 1.4 for Mac is now out – new features look pretty useful – “Call forwarding and call auto-answer, Fast call set-up – drag and drop contacts to add them to chats and calls, Self-expression – users can now broadcast their mood along with their online presence through emoticons, Auto-pause/auto-resume iTunes for in-bound and out-bound voice calls, Notifications – Skype notifies users of new messages and when users come on- and off-line, along with an overview of available Skype services, The Mac OS X version is now available in Japanese.” Link.
Handy how-to from Gadgetopia “Being on a budget, we got two things for our business: the smallest conference room we could reasonably get away with, and the cheapest decent projector we could find. This means that the projector is pretty big, and takes up an entire end of the conference table. I needed a way to mount it to the ceiling, but projector mounts run between $100-$200. They typically come in two types: Spidery-Articulated-Aluminum-Dealie and Pole-With-A-Mounting-Plate. One of the Pole-With-A-Mounting-Plate products I found on the net claimed, “mates with any 1 1/2 inch pipe” in its description. That sent me to Home Depot, and I came up with this rig for about $40. Read on for a rough how-to.” Thanks Star. Link.
Fun Instructable on making a pair of sandals from old tires Cthoyes writes – “Ok, to be fair, I originally saw this here and thought I would see how it goes. That website has good instructions but not many photos. So, I thought I would try it and take photos. But anyway, you need a pattern first. Trace your foot and then trace about 1/2 inch around that for the sole. You’re also going to need to mark the tabs. You can flip the same pattern over for the other shoe providing you are not horribly asymmetrical…” Link.
