You spent weeks, even months, developing your circuit. Doodling. Drafting. Breadboarding. Perfboarding. Designing and etching that PCB. Your work deserves an outside worthy of all that hard work you put inside. If you’re looking for ideas, you need look no further. Something here is certain to inspire.
Reuse a pair of jeans and a belt to make a cute lunch sack, makeup bag, or art supply holder!
I am attracted to things that are capable of transcending their own banality and materiality to become something else, something more. I like the way that videotape is simultaneously delicate and durable, since it’s meant to last. I can rip it easily with my hands because it’s so thin, but I can also stretch it. Videotape is made to present the world in color, but it appears purely black.
Recently, we’ve been brainstorming ideas for a breadboarding workshop to put on at Maker Faire and other events. Hoping to save participants the tedium of cutting and stripping their own jumper wires (and the cost of providing readymade jumpers) we hit on the idea of using staples. I first read about this hack on Instructables, awhile back, and was excited to find a chance to put it to use. Just one problem: it doesn’t work.
[viddler id=1409630 w=580 h=330] In this video from Core77, designer Taylor McKenzie-Veal uses a toaster, a two-part wooden mold, and a bit of compressed air to turn an empty sports drink bottle into a plastic piggy bank. So much win. [via adafruit] This Little Piggy — Taylor McKenzie-Veal Design More:Homemade Blow-Molding Gun
Clever junktech from the folks at Austin Creative Reuse, spotted at last Saturday’s Austin Mini Maker Faire, where this simple machine was keeping a lot of kids engaged, for a long time, at very low cost.
Some nice detailed build notes from Nori Lamphere, describing her styrofoam concrete wall construction method, including a specific mix formula and mixing directions.
