Quick Knitting Tip: Pick Up a Dropped Stitch
Fixing mistakes in your knitting can be frustrating! Learn how to use a latch hook tool to pick up a dropped stitch that has run down several rows in this CRAFT Video.
Year: 2010
Vacuum Tube Radio Hat
I totally want one of these vacuum tube radio hats.
Will somebody think of the robots?
As part of their campaign to raise money for a new facility, the hackerspace i3 Detroit produced this cute video imploring you to please think of the robots and help their cause.
Scientific cookie round-ups
A couple of killer round-ups of science-themed cookies.
Ira Glass on Improving Your Craft
I really admire Ira Glass of radio’s This American Life. He’s just so intelligent. And it comes across in a very real, down-to-earth way that’s indicative of someone who seriously mulls things over. This is a snippet of a longer talk on creating stories for television or radio, but in this particular segment, he is […]
Pixie Hollow Playset Made From Aluminum Foil, Salt Dough
This brilliant recreation of Pixie Hollow from Tinkerbell was made by Filth Wizardry, using aluminum foil as a base onto which she shaped salt dough. She details her process that, though spread over more than a week, was fairly simple. I love the idea, and think it could be a great way to create all […]
Experimenting with Cuprous Oxide diodes
Pete Friedrichs, author of the can’t-be-recommended-highly-enough Voice of the Crystal and Instruments of Amplification (which I review in MAKE Volume 21), has posted online his two-part article “Fun With Homebrew Cuprous Oxide Diodes,” which originally appeared in the Xtal Set Society Newsletter. In it, he shows you how to build an old-school Cuprous Oxide-based radio […]