Yarn and Fabric Embellished Paper Valentines
The Purl Bee shows you how to add fabric and yarn to adorn paper Valentine’s Day cards. Link.
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Refashioned Cardigan
Sari of Sweet Sassafras took a boxy vintage cashmere sweater and refashioned it into a more fitted and cuter version complete with a flower adornment. Find out how you can do this too in her tutorial. Link.
Exercise bike charges your gadgets
This custom-built exercise bike wheel turns a generator from an old Volkswagen to charge a 12 volt car battery. I like the idea of using human power to generate gadget power, they just need to get an iPod cable hooked up to this thing. Lots of other cool projects at the below link. How to […]
Play Xbox by tilting your controller
This hacked Xbox 360 controller replaces one of the analog joysticks with a tilt sensor. Pretty simple hack with some nicely playable results. Xbox 360 Tilt Controller Phase Two – Link
Sundance New Frontier on Main Roundup
I just returned from the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. I traveled with the Graffiti Research Lab who were invited as part of the New Frontier on Main program. New Frontier on Main “showcases cinematic installations, multimedia performance events, microcinema screenings, new media technology, and the Rabbit Hole, a DJ installation lounge cafe.”
Cuban motor bike
Couple nice shots of a handmade Cuban motor bike, I like the direct contact engine and soda bottle gas tank – Link.
Idiotarod ’08 – Underground shopping cart racing
Gothamist has a giant round up from the NYC based “Idiotarod, an underground race which uses decorated shopping carts as the vehicles – Yesterday was the annual Idiotarod, which is both loved and hated by locals. We hear that this year the head honchos were tossing non-competitors out of the checkpoints, this coupled with the […]