This just in: Thumbtack Press is offering affordable high-quality prints of Linzie Hunter’s hilarious Spam One-Liners art series. Link.

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One scrap of polyethylene pipe, one bungee cord from a tarp tent, an inexpensive flashlight, and ten minutes of your time makes a neat bike light and handlebar-mounting system.



Easily installed and removed, easily transferred to other bikes, easy to adjust up/down while riding, lightweight, and ine…


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Steve writes in about this maker-like film, has anyone seen it? -

This film is absolutely amazing. The makers in this film are largely mere hobbyists, but their ideas show an incredible likeness to many projects featured on this site (most notable would be the human powered hydrofoil).

Gizmo! (1977) - Link.

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The latest episodes of Boing Boing TV cover roach-controlled robots, a video by MAKE contributor Bill Barminski, the giant Atrai joystick shown off at the recent Felt Club/Maker Square event in LA, and 8-bit therapy with Dr. Jardin.

Boing Boing TV - Link

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Art-making is one of the easiest and most lucrative of human activities.



A finished work of art can be exchanged for many desirable things such as food, shelter, sex, fame and money (which in turn could be used to purchase food, shelter, sex and fame).



So, it is understandable that you might want…


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In Dallas this weekend is the Urban Street Bazaar at the Dallas Market Hall (2200 N. Stemmons Fwy - Entrance is on Market Hall Drive). There will be over 50 local vendors along with a fashion show, fabulous cocktails, 2 DJs and bands. The first 50 people will get a swag bag. For more info, visit the Urban Street Bazaar site. Link.

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I will show you how to tie a figure 8 knot and a figure 8 follow through.





Stating the knot



This is a simple knot, so just follow the pictures.





Finishing the knot



Cross the string under, and then push it through the hole. Pull tightly, unless you are going to do the follow through, and leave it…


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Coming up this weekend in Seattle is the mega-fun Urban Craft Uprising event on Saturday and Sunday from 11am-5pm. Shop from over 120 indie crafters and don’t miss the fashion show at 2:30pm on Saturday. Bre and I were there last year and it was a blast (see posts here and here.) This year, our fabulous friend Beth Goza will be running our CRAFT booth so be sure to come by to say Hi to her! And make sure you get there early — the first 100 people through the door get swag bags! Link.

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Amazing! Andreas Jakl posted a cool N95 hack that uses the built-in accelerometer, Python, Bluetooth, and a microcontroller to control the movement of a remote control car:

Now we wanted to take the acceleration sensor of a mobile phone to the next level and use it to control something literally “bigger” than an application that is running on the phone itself.

The result is called “ShakerRacer” (thanks to Adam Montandon for this great name!). Stephan Selinger, one of our professors, bought a normal RC car for about €90 and “tuned” it. Not in the traditional way, but instead he replaced the standard remote control component with an own microcontroller and a Bluetooth-module.

Using the Python module aXYZ from cyke64, it was possible to write a small application that translates the movements of the N95 acceleration sensor to commands that can be understood by the car. This enables you to go as fast as 30 km/h by just tilting your phone!

ShakerRacer: Real RC car controlled with the N95 acceleration sensor - [via] Link

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Spiffy wood stove from an old computer case… Link.

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