Geek Crafts

Best of Geek Crafts 2010

It’s no secret around here that I’m a huge geek, and scrolling through our Geek Crafts archives is one of my favorite pastimes. I was thrilled that we were able to devote an entire month to Geek Crafts back in September, and here are some of my favorite projects from that month. Go out and […]

How-To: Fuzzy Percentile Dice

Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories shows us how to stitch up a pair of fuzzy 10-sided percentile dice for your rear view mirror. I had never heard of percentile dice, but a quick scan on Wikipedia revealed their typical purpose to randomly choose a number between 1 and 100 when you forgot your 100-sided die at […]

Tron Bag with EL Wire

Tote your Thinkpad and port your Apple in style with our custom TRON-inspired laptop bag tutorial. With a little soldering and sewing skills you can have your own light up satchel, sure to impress geeky friends. So grab your sewing needle and soldering iron and follow along. This project is a collaboration between ladyada and […]

Papercraft Tron “Bit” models

Papercraft Tron “Bit” models

Tektonten writes: “Bit” is a character from the 1982 Disney movie, Tron. Considered by some to be the first CGI character in a movie, Bit communicates by speaking only “yes” or “no.” The orange shape above is the form Bit takes when answering “yes”. The spiky red shape is the form when answering “no” and […]

How-To: Harry Potter Doll

Heidi Kenney continues to wow us this week, this time with her pattern and instructions for making this rad Harry Potter doll. He comes complete with a stitched scar and removable robe, and Kenney shares that she has plans for other HP characters in the works. I can’t wait to see them all! Related: Harry […]

How-To: Light-Up Slippers

“Danger is my middle name” on Instructables writes: My mom has seen a lot of my projects that incorporate LEDs into clothing and so for Christmas, she said she wanted light up slippers. She has peripheral neuropathy after undergoing chemo. It wakes her up at night and she wants to get up and walk around […]