Craftster has a blog post with information on crafting for Eid ul-Fitr, the holiday that marks the end of Ramadan. I love this dish towel made by Craftster user la la laurrenn! It’s made for a holiday dish towel swap, and it’s just beautiful.
Here’s a Atmel ATtiny13 driving a 10×8 LED matrix inside of a decorated sytrofoam Easter egg. Holiday maker fun for the whole family! Even Hello Kitty got in on the fun. Gorgeous LED Egg
MAKE Flickr pool member Whymcycles has contributed a great Meatricity powered Christmas tree build. Colin pedals my Dad’s ’75 Schwinn Exceriser stationary bike..30,000+ miles, with a fixed magnet electric motor rubbing on the wheel.’ All sizes’ will show the simple clamp set up to hold the motor and the device itself to the fork leg. […]
Every year, some friends of mine throw an “Art Hat” party for New Year’s Eve. We get together and each construct a hat that we wear at the stroke of midnight. We parade around in the hats while banging on their pots and pans. Last year, we had a bonfire in their front yard and […]
My favorite: half-eaten gingerman ornament Our friends at Treehugger have a few solutions to unreciprocated gift-giving. Why not make some in case you get a present from somebody you didn’t expect?:)
Before Christmas this year, there seems to be plenty of neat holiday themed stuff with good parts about to go unsold. Anything with an overt holiday theme will be marked down the day after Christmas, so it is possible to think ahead and provision yourself for some maker fun for the months and years ahead. […]
The folks at Tellart have made an amazing Augmented Reality (AR) holiday card that you can play around with yourself: you’ll need Flash player (version 9), a webcam, and a printer (so you can print out the AR objects). The project was made using FLARToolkit and Papervision 3D. Check out Tellart’s site for more details, […]
