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This immense 40″ X 80″ cross-stitch recreation of the Sistine Chapel took 10 years for Joanna Lopianowski-Roberts to create. Joanna used 1,809 different color combinations with a total of about 628,296 stitches! Wow! She documents the entire process in her self-published book (on lulu.com) with 45 full color individual patterns for each scene. [ via […]
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Voxphoto has a 10 year old Kodak digital camera and wants to take photos and post them up on Flickr. Remember these specs? 756×504 resolution (less than 0.4 megapixels), fixed focus, non-zooming lens (42mm equivalent), no LCD view screen, no removable memory (48 images at standard resolution). Oh, the memories! […]
You can make your own version of Bing Bang Bong using stretched out balloons and peanuts cans. The goal is to have the ball bearing bounce to as many trampolines as possible [via] Link.
Here’s how to a build a remotely managed music player out of a $40 wireless router, a $15 USB audio adapter, and a $12 LCD kit. [via] Link.
Here’s a great Instructable that shows how to use one of my favorite tools, SketchUp, to make a 2D stencil from a 3D design. Link. Previously on MAKE, HOW TO – Make a spray paint stencil for a laptop.
Forget the PSP, here’s a video of a homemade, handheld portable Playstation 2! [via] Link.
Bit Editions is offering a $235 LED kit for artists – you send off your own animations and then assemble the kit to display your LED-ified art. The displays are 12 by 14 inches in size. They contain one LED per square inch. Each LED can show eight levels of brightness. Driven by a microcontroller […]
