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Erin writes in about these yarn curtains at Insubordiknit. They’re handmade and painted yarn strands with thicker and thinner portions to make a beaded curtain effect. I love them, they seem like they’d be a lot softer than hard, noisy beads. – Link.
From v*i*d*a lab: This project proposes to incorporate more meaningfully the life of hamsters, a pet usually kept marginalized in a cage, with the life of the family by making it play a significant role during a card game. Every time the hamster gives a spin in her wheel a random number is generated. This […]
The first Dorkbot DC/Make: DC project event was held on Wednesday at the Marian Koshland Science Museum in Northwest DC. This was the inaugural meeting of Make: DC, a projects building group inspired by MAKE magazine. We’ll be doing a series of joint Dorkbot/Make: DC events in the future. For this first event, we made […]
MP4 Video | QT Video | HD | Subscribe in iTunes While at Maker Faire in Austin, I met Cristen Andrews of cristencrochet.blogspot.com who crocheted the most lovely backpacks, hats, cozies, bowls and more — all from plastic bags. Here in this video she shows us some of the cool things she makes and how […]
Vonnie from the Adventures of a Lady in Training blog posted pictures of some Kool Aid yarn dying she did. The colors turned out really nice. Link. Related Multi-colored Custom Yarn Dyeing with Kool Aid
REMINDER: MAKE will have a booth @ the Greener Gadgets conferece – February 1, 2008 New York City. MAKE readers get a 25% discount (use code MAKE25discount) – On February 1st, 2008 in New York City industry leaders, entrepreneurs, journalists, and designers will gather to discuss the business case for the greening of the consumer […]
Here’s a nifty MINDSTORMS NXT-based bot that can sort gumballs by their color, using the HiTechnic NXT Color Sensor. LEGO Mindstorms Gumball Sorter [via] Link
