Cute with Chris: Amigurumi Week
Starting today on the new hilarious videoblog “Cute with Chris” it’s amigurumi week showcasing the cute work of Thalia. You’ll be able to cast your vote on which toy is the cutest. Link.
Month: October 2006
Solar dress
Wow, this is a pretty intense “solar dress” from Studio 5050 – “Day-for-Night, an hommage to Paco Rabanne as well as a celebration of the beauty of electronics, is a modular, reconfigurable dress comprised of 444 white circuit boards (although the number changes as the dress can get longer or shorter). Each tile is designed […]
HOW TO – Inkjet printing on fabric
Fungus amungus shows how to use your inkjet printer to print of fabric – “Forget about printing on some transfer paper and then ironing it onto some fabric. With some freezer paper you can print right on the fabric itself. No need to reverse the image and it’s faster, cheaper, and more effective.” – Link. […]
HOW TO – Reupholster a 50’s dinette chair
Sarah of Pink of Perfection visits Beatrice of the shop Red Hook in Brooklyn to show us how to reupholster a 50’s dinette chair. Thanks Sebastian! Link.
Make Controller Kit
MAKE Flickr photo pool member DDaniels has some photos of our (now shipping) MAKE controller kit & some experimentation with it… here, the MAKE Controller Kit with a scavenged talking mickey mouse servo. It uses a pontetiometer to determine servo position, and uses PWM output to drive the servo motor. [via] – Link. Related: Controller […]
DIY Audio splitter
Here’s how to build a simple audio splitter so two people can listen to your MP3 player at the same time. It all fits inside a small bottle as its enclosure too… – Link.
Add a LCD to your PC (USB)
Nnod has a follow up on our previous “Add a LCD to your PC” post, this version uses USB… – “If you’re a little more adventurous you can build your own USB LCD interface with a PIC or AVR microcontroller. It’s not as scary as it sounds. This is good because you can power and […]