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When crafts were just a hobby, I often found myself in the midst of complete chaos. Wool and fabric and glitter and glue sticks were strewn everywhere. And I liked it that way! I have always found a tremendous amount of inspiration in the crazy mess of supplies. But now crafting is my career and I have deadlines to meet. I can no longer afford to spend an hour looking for my scissors.
I used to live in a two-bedroom house; one bedroom was for sleeping, and the other was for crafting. I had an entire room just for my projects, and it was a luxury that I totally abused. Everything was everywhere. When I was working on my book, Feltique, there was wool roving in piles on the floor, sweaters in scraps, and the scissors were buried beneath it all.
A year ago, I moved into a new place. The whole house is just 730 square feet. There’s hardly room for my bed in the single bedroom, let alone a dedicated space just for crafting. I worried that if I had to keep everything put away, my creativity would suffer. Instead, being forced into organization against my will was the best thing that ever happened.
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Here is another magical instructable in my small 30 Second Magical Series. This one is much simpler and easier to follow!
By: saxmaster765
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MAKE commenter whitehead made this neat project that he calls a patio cooler. He turned an ordinary plastic cooler into a nice piece of patio furniture by building a frame for it out of cypress wood and spare sheet metal roofing. It even comes complete with a vintage bottle opener!
Have you started your cooler hacking project yet? Remember to add your photos, tagged “MAKEcation,” to the MAKE Flickr pool to enter to win a $100 Maker Shed gift certificate! If you need a little extra time, you are in luck, as the deadline has been extended to Wednesday, Sept. 9.
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Thanks to everyone who entered our giveaway for Linda Permann’s new book, Crochet Adorned. The winner is Evelyn of Malvern, PA. More giveaways are coming soon!
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Launch potato projectiles 200+ yards with this stun-gun triggered, high-powered potato cannon
with see-thru action.
Thanks go to William Gurstelle for the original article in MAKE, Volume 03.
View the PDF of this project. and then subscribe to MAKE Magazine for other great projects
you can do over the weekend.
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If you have a spare cell phone display and are handy with a microcontroller this cool Cell Phone Display Oscilloscope by Almost There could be your next project.
"Check out these impressive specifications rivaling scopes costing twice the price (about $9 MSRP)…
Vertical fixed at 5V full screen (or 0.5V per division, if it had divisions.)
Horizontal Sweep […]
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According to some reports, toy designer Tim Kehoe spent 15 years and $3 million US to bring his vision of colored soap bubbles to market. Making a colored bubble is apparently hard enough, but the real challenge is making them non-staining. That’s right: By virtue of some very fancy dye chemistry, Zubbles are only colored as bubbles. Once they pop the color disappears. After years of hype, they can finally (and only) be purchased here.
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The Maple prototype looks very interesting…
This is the Maple prototype, our first version of an Arduino-compatible board with an STM32 ARM Cortex-M3 processor. We’re chomping at the bits to release it as soon as we tie up a couple loose ends to make it what we think it should be. We’ve ported all the Arduino language and are modifying the Arduino environment so that everything works how it should. Notice that Maple does not have an FTDI chip, so serial communication works through a USB Virtual COM Port that’s implemented on the STM32, so it may even be slightly easier to setup than Arduino boards because FTDI drivers aren’t required, and the drivers for the Virtual COM Port are probably already on your Mac or Linux machine; for Windows, you’ll just use the driver that we include with the software download.
We’re also extending the Arduino language to allow users to do things with the STM32 that the Atmega chips cannot do such as easy setting up of different types of USB devices (HID for crazy mouses, mass storage, or full speed USB 2.0 data transfer) and other communication protocols (USART, SPI, I2C, I2S, CAN), providing higher bandwidth capabilities.
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Can your kids tell the endoplasmic reticulum from the golgi apparatus? Can you? Instructables user ChrysN shows us how to make a plush cell model.
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