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During the Swap-O-Rama-Rama at the Maker Faire a lot of the cool folks there decided to “re-make” our MAKE and Maker Faire shirts. Here’s a round up of some of the cool outfits that were spotted at the fair like this MAKE/Maker Faire halter dress by Stefanie Gesiorski, a designer who was also a sewer participating in the swap.
Three cheers for our volunteer Heidi who took some time during lunch on Sunday to refashion her Maker Faire Staff shirt into this elaborate jacket. Not pictured is a ribbon flower she put as the jacket tail! Go Heidi!
Swap wewer and presenter, Melanie Miguel, made this MAKE skirt.
Dave Montie modded his Swap-O-Rama-Rama Volunteer shirt. I love the added NERD patch and Mondrian style of different color t-shirts stitched together.
Rob Cameron, another Swap-O-Rama-Rama volunteer, made a sarong and shirt.
Finally, Jenna an attendee re-made this fun shirt!
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ASTLAB has built an machine that automates programming microcontrollers. This could be a useful machine if you needed to make hundreds of pre-programmed microcontrollers. There is a tube of blank microcontroller chips on the right, and the programmed ones on the left. A motorized arm moves over to this tube and grabs a blank chip […]
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Carlos made an incredible time lapse video of Maker Faire 2007 shot @ Fiesta Hall across from the giant human powered nose picking machine …. Link (mov).
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Check writes in with the latest Toolmonger podcast “live” from Maker Faire -
This is a special episode of Tool Talk completely focusing on our experiences at Maker Faire 2007. Even if you’re not a regular Tool Talk subscriber you’ll want to give this a listen as we talk about everything from remotely-controlled telescopes to robot fighting and huge tesla coils — with lots of audio from the event.
Toolmonger » Tool Talk Podcast #12 - Link.
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This is my contribution for the SewUseful Contest.
Here’s the link to Etsy!
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=6057456
How to make a cute merfairy or mermaid to hang on your bag, phone or anywhere else. Makes a great gift!
Get the template for the mermaid at this great dollmaking web…
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Congratulation to 56Effie and Kevin who were the winners last week.
The prize this week is a bluetooth dongle. If your computer doesn’t have bluetooth built in this dongle will allow you to do some Wiimote hacking.
This contest will run for this weekend only (May 26 - 27, 2007) . Ending time is based on central […]
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BurdaStyle writes:
We are thrilled to announce our first BurdaStyle Design Competition. As an open source website, we are hoping to facilitate more creative opportunities for sewers all over the world. Now we’ve come up with the perfect way for you to contribute to the site as well as to your own trophy case, or in this case, pattern library. Send us your designs and we will choose two winners to have their patterns professionally created, shot in a photo shoot, featured on BurdaStyle.com, and downloaded by other BurdaStyle users!
Also, did we mention that this competition can make a contribution to your wallet!?!
First place in the pattern competition is $500.
First place in the design competition is $300.
For more information on how to enter the BurdaStyle Design Competition, visit the BurdaStyle site here. - Link.
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Dutchtronix is selling AVR Oscilloscope Clock kits. No need to sit down for the kit price, at $35.00 this will make a great addition to any workbench!
Video after the jump.
“This AVR Oscilloscope clock is available as a kit, using all through hole components. The kit included ALL components necessary to assemble the board shown below, […]
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Just taking a look at this vintage 1947 wedding dress that’s on display at the Smithsonian and you’d have no idea it’s actually made from the parachute of the groom who was in WWII.
From the site:
This wedding dress was made from a nylon parachute that saved the groom’s life during World War II. Maj. Claude Hensinger, a B-29 pilot, and his crew, were returning from a bombing raid over Yowata, Japan, in August 1944 when their engine caught fire. The crew was forced to bail out. It was night and Major Hensinger landed on some rocks and suffered some minor injuries. During the night he used the parachute both as a pillow and a blanket. In the morning the crew was able to reassemble and were taken in by some friendly Chinese. He kept the parachute and used it as a way to propose to Ruth in 1947. He presented it to her and suggested she make a gown out of it for their wedding.
Read more about this heirloom parachute wedding dress at the Smithsonian web site. [ via ] Link.
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Kristina Lindström and Åsa Ståhl of the Växjö Interactive Institute in Sweden, have created a new project called “Stitching Together”. The project explores the temporary nature of text messages and archives special text notes by hand or machine stitching them onto pieces of fabric that will eventually turn into a quilt.
From the site:
In stitching together we invite you and other text message-users to share text messages and transform them into tangible and physical text messages made out of thread and fabric. We want to make it possible for you to make these intimate, digital treasures longer lasting and stitch together different techniques, different speeds, people of different ages and different usage of communication channels.
In practice, in stitching together, we offer the public to forward one of their private text messages to us and in return they will get their message stitched in fabric. This will be done by hand or by an automatic sewing machine programmed for this specific purpose. To make these stories connect we will make a quilt out of fragments of the text messages.
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