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ThingamaHat
MAKE Flickr pool weekly roundup
Paper cup mushrooms
Best of CRAFT
Resin jewelry tutorial
Citizen engineer (audio fixed)
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ThingamaHat

This maker of the ThingamaKIT, from Bleep Labs, built it onto a hard hat. Why? Why not!

The Foreman [From the MAKE Flickr photo pool]

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MAKE Flickr pool weekly roundup

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From the MAKE Flickr photo pool

HTML Color Name Generator
Dollars to buttons [above, top-left]
rulers + tape +books = Rule Organ [above, top-right]
Ikea kitchen hack: in-board bowl [above, bottom-left]
Tori Amos in LEGO [above, bottom-right]

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Paper cup mushrooms

FrealaF put together this cute paper cup mushroom tutorial on deviant art - very clever!

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Best of CRAFT

Here are some of my favorite posts from the CRAFT blog this week:

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Modofly points us to John Golden's three-part tutorial on making resin jewelry. He pours the resin outside (covers the pieces to protect from dust and bugs) - it's pretty nasty stuff and it's important to have good ventilation. This technique uses a paper image as the decorative basis of the pieces - it's neat, you could do lots of things besides jewelry. Here are part 2 and part 3.

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Citizen engineer (audio fixed)

Weekend update... I fixed the audio issue on the Citizen Engineer video, transcoding to Flash seemed to mess something up. So here it (above) & in HD again... and if you just want to see techno soldering action video (below).

We'll be presenting this along with a quick chat about open source hardware at the NYC ignite. Oh, and lastly! Slashdot has it in their "Firehose" section, vote it up!