The Stray Sock Sewing book gives you inspiration for ways to repurpose your unpaired, old, or just plain ugly socks. The book Includes a gallery of the author’s inspirational creations, a section on stitches and techniques needed for sock sewing, and detailed instructions on 8 different projects you can make from socks.
The Flux Factory, a not-for-profit arts organization in Long Island City is having a night of “performances, music, free booze, and excellent people.” Go check out some really great artists; there will be limited-edition work for sale by Brandstifter, Bread & Butter Collective, Andrea Dezso, Kerry Downey, Heather Jones, Aya Kakeda, Miwa Koizumi, Simone Meltesen, […]
David Chatting built this Arduino Eye Shield so that he could hook up an analog video camera to his Arduino. It sounds pretty crazy, however by utilizing an LM1881 video sync separator chip and some comparators, he was able to use the Arduino to capture at least 8 1-bit monochrome values from each line of video data.
From the MAKE Flickr pool Jenine.net shared this pic of her unique copper-palmed persistence of vision box – I’m making a “Persistence of Vision” toy, which will show a programmed message in eight red light- emitting diodes. In the Fab Lab we have a roll of copper foil backed with a conductive adhesive. I used […]
Did the transition to digital TV make you nostalgic for the analog recording days of your? Then why not go full-out and create an entirely analog camera using a mess of wires, individual sensors, and light bulbs arranged to make a screen.
Man, this is awesome: This clock is actually an LED screen looping a video of the designer manually redrawing the minute hand every minute, in real time, for an hour. I guess the hour hand is probably moved digitally. Would be kinda scary if he actually stood there and redrew the hands manually every minute for a full 12 hours. I don’t know much about the designer; just that the video was filmed “at Design Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach 2009” and posted to YouTube by A3Network. Feel free to give a shout in the comments if you’ve got more info.
This beautiful cocktail-mixing machine, called The Corpse Reviver, was built by Benajmin Cowden for this year’s Roboexotica. I’ve never even tried the drink but I want one of these machines!
