HOW TO - Make LEGO gummies! SFHandyman writes…
I’m going to show you how to make gummy candies. I made a silicone candy mold from Legos. You don’t need to make a custom mold. There are many commercially available silicone molds, or you could just skip the mold completely and cut them with cookie cutters, a knife or even scissors.
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Original post by Phillip Torrone
Deep Blue costume - one of my favorite costumes this year! Sponges writes-
Let me set the scene a bit: It’s the summer of 1997 and World champion chess player Gary Kasparaov has been beaten in a six game match by two wins to one with three draws . But not by another man. A machine, built by men, has beaten him. IBM’s Deep Blue could evaluate up 200 million positions per second, and capable of calculating 11.38 Gigaflops.
In honor of that stunning piece of engineering, I set out to make a suit, that, upon wearing it, I would be transformed into the most logical of logic machines ever built, a chess playing computer!
It is not a perfect replica, by any means; I took many artistic liberties. I was inspired by Deep Blue’s portrayal in S2E20 of Futurama, Anthology of Interest. It is rather the stylized idea of Deep Blue, the pop culture impressions of a thinking machine trapped in a big black box.
This costume took quite a bit of work, and erm, it was a bit on the more cumbersome side. But whose else has a mainframe costume? Incidentally, it was so cumbersome that It took me about 15 minutes to shove my way from one side of First Avenue to the other, missing the costume contest registration by just a few minutes. Once there I promptly put it in the coat check so I could breathe.
The frame of the costume is the remains of several cardboard boxes spliced together with duct tape, and the “thinking” lights on the front are controlled by the innards of about 27 little electronic dice, all wired together in a monstrous chain. Another set of lights scrolls back and forth over the speaker grille sorta like KITT, making the AI presence ever clearer. I added a pair of intake/outtake fans so I could breathe ever so slightly better inside, and finally a voice changing box to speak in a robot voice and say great classic things like, “Pitiful creature of meat and bone,” and “How about a nice game of chess.”
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Chess champion loses to computer - and- IBM please open up Deep Blue already..
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Original post by Phillip Torrone
I did a post a while back on making recycled paper and it covered making paper from dryer lint - here’s a tutorial about making modeling dough from dryer lint.
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Original post by Patti Schiendelman
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Here’s a video tour of CRAFT Magazine issue 9. Check out the special Green Craft section with 21 projects with an eco-groove. Learn to fuse recycled plastic bags to make a tote bag and hat, make folded fabric gift wraps, and even learn the basics of hydroponic gardening! Make a secret stash box from vintage books and add LEDs to light up your embroidery. Even learn how to use Google’s free 3D modeling software, Sketchup! View the complete table of contents.
Craftzine readers can now get $5 off a yearly subscription by entering the code MCRAFT. That’s just $29.95 for 4 quarterly issues!
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Original post by Becky Stern
Jenny @ Craft posted about these a while back - I think these plush particles would make great teaching tools.
WEIGHT: Particle weights vary according to their properties. The Higgs boson, top quark and W boson, for example, are the heaviest-they’re stuffed with polished gravel. The massless bosons are the lightest–they are stuffed with polyfill. The muon, a middleweight (very loosely speaking), is stuffed with poly beads. I tried to make the tachyon completely massless but I’m still waiting for him to return from the past (future?) to find out if it worked.
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Original post by Patti Schiendelman
It’s not really for hamsters, but it’s about the right size. Mydogellen made this awesome knitted bike - she made an Instructable that explains her approach and the techniques she used.
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Original post by Patti Schiendelman
[The Etsy Steam Team at the Steampunk Con (from left to right, by username: lilibat, PinkPeacock, nullalux, 19Moons, Choklit, OrpheusAlchemy, IndustrialFairytale, FaradayBags, and figments. Photo by Andrew/shoutingboy).]
I finally met members of the Etsy Steam Team at last week’s Steampunk Convention. As you may or may not know, Etsy (think: Amazon meets eBay at a craft’s fair) allows sellers to organize themselves into “teams” based on similar interests or product lines (to network, share promotion, skills, etc.). Obviously, the Steam Team is gathered around their mutual interest in making and selling steampunk and Victorian-inspired art and crafts. At the con, they offered everything from watchwork and church key jewelry to surreal antique assemblage, clockwork bugs, potion bottles and other alchemical chotsky. It was a wonderful and talented group of artists and crafters that I was glad to meet and with whom I hope to stay in touch.
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Original post by Gareth Branwyn
When I was a kid, I remember using crayons on a map as the election returns came in, as we tallied the votes for each state. I wanted to do that again this year, so I mashed together a map and put it on flickr to share with my friends.
I put this together from a free map found at http://www.eduplace.com/ss/maps/usa.html, and the number of electoral votes for each state. You can watch the presidential election returns and keep track as they come in, or you can start coloring ahead of time as you imagine different scenarios.
The number of electoral college votes for each state is based on population figures from the 2000 census. There are 538 votes total. A majority of 270 is needed to win.
Happy coloring!
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Original post by Phillip Torrone
It had to happen… iPhone shirt / costume.
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Original post by Phillip Torrone
I like cute and I like creepy - I *really* like combined cute-and-creepy. Just Bento made this cute/creepy Halloween bento that’s also healthy!
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Original post by Patti Schiendelman
Here’s another interesting knit project by artist Ben Fino Radin. This particular object takes the shape of an old Macintosh 128k computer from the 1980s.
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Original post by Jonah Brucker-Cohen
In this week’s video, we take a visit to the new fabric store Whiz Bang Fabrics in San Francisco where owner Helen Fawcett shows us how to make some cool fabric wall art.
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You can see more photos in my Flickr set of the store and finished fabric wall art.
And if you live in the Bay Area, CA and love fabric, don’t miss a chance to check out this great store. You’ll be in craft heaven with their amazing variety of prints and patterns.
WhizBang Fabrics (@ Active Space)
3150 18th Street, Suite 113 (on Treat @ 18th),
San Francisco, CA 94110
Phone: 415-621-2849
Hours:
Tuesday - Saturday 11am - 7pm
Sunday Noon - 5pm
Whiz Bang Fabrics is also having a sale!
Saturday, October 25 - Sunday, November 2
25 - 50% off ALL fabric, trim, notions and patterns
amy butler, joel dewberry, anna maria horner, kokka, fiskars cutting tools, gutermann thread, favorite things patterns and much more!
++ mention the CRAFT podcast and get an additional 10% off
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Original post by Natalie Zee Drieu
Take a visit to CRAFT and check out my tutorial on how to make quick and easy Star Wars Halloween costumes for dogs. Learn how to make a simple Ewok, Princess Leia or Darth Vader costume for the furry friend in your life.
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Original post by Natalie Zee Drieu
Best cat costume ever?
What’s cuter than a platonic solid? A cat dressed up as a platonic solid for Halloween!
This instructable details the making of a soft quilted tetrahedron costume for the more patient of my two cats.
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Original post by Luke Iseman
We love to have craft parties for birthdays and holidays - both kids and adults seem to enjoy making something they can take home. Here’s a small roundup of Halloween crafts that are easy to do at parties.
KCEtsy has this great Halloween garland tutorial.
Small Object has instructions for ghost walkers and pose-able skeletons.
Lftndbt put together an Instructable for easy LED spiders.
Martha Stewart has a lot of free clip art for invitations, decorations, and crafts.
Her website also has a collection of ideas from her TV show, like these specimen jar candles and creepy head decorations made with doll heads and LEDs.
And, of course, Evil Mad Scientist has instructions for an itty bitty blinkie LED Jack o Lantern.
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Original post by Patti Schiendelman
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