…which I am!
You can’t really tell from the pics, but the shafts of these knitting needles are hexagonal, which make them *much* easier on the hands, with better control. The result: more even stitches, fewer hand cramps.
Author: dave-o
Beer and Boomerangs Launch Party ACHIEVED!
Thanks so much to everyone who helped make the Beer and Boomerangs Book Launch a success! Despite the seasonal midwestern cold and darkness, we enjoyed three hours of beer, wine, salty snacks, boomerangs, rocking out on the $10 Electric Guitar & Thunderdrum, and kid-based bedlam–including ad hoc rolling chair bumper car races.
We’re still celebrating the holiday season:
1) Now through Xmas save 35% when you order the book directly from the publisher, No Starch Press, using the coupon code MAKEMORE
2) We’ve released another sample project as a free download: Project 18: Cardboard Boomerangs. You’ll be making and throwing in minutes, esp. if you download these Print-n-Snip Boomerang templates (work great with cereal boxes)
Book Launch Party: Beer and Boomerangs on December 3!
The official Snip, Burn, Solder, Shred book launch party is December 3 from 6 to 8pm at the Workantile Exchange (118 S. Main St., Ann Arbor, MI, 48104)
- FREE beer and family-friendly refreshments!
- Hang out with Dave-o himself!
- Check out projects from the book!
- Build, tune, fly, and keep FREE cardboard boomerangs!
December 3 is also Midnight Madness throughout downtown Ann Arbor, so the streets will be lively with free music, jugglers, fire eaters, and crazy-awesome deals at lots of shops, restaurants, bars, and cafes!
RSVP via Facebook, or email me at dave[AT]davideriknelson[DOT]com, or just show up and have fun!
Four Ways to Play the Thunderdrum
Book Trailer #1: Build a Water Rocket in a Minute
Sock Cthulhu spotted in the wild
Yfrog Photo : yfrog.com/5572laj – Shared by narcosislabs
Sew your own with this free sample project from Snip, Burn, Solder, Shred (the Cthulhu mod is at the end of the project; mine is pictured below).
OMFG the books are printed!
No Starch Press and Malloy (the printer, right here in Ann Arbor, Michigan) have made a superawesome book out of the jumbled mess of ill-lit pics and typos I produced–and you can order it directly from the publisher at a 35% discount with this coupon code: MAKEMORE (good until the end of December).
(UPDATE: As of 2014-ish Malloy is now Edwards Brothers Malloy. They no longer print my book for No Starch, but they are still rad and still right here in Ann Arbor, MI,)
DIY Multimeter Kit
A nifty lil digital multimeter kit from the MakerSHED for just 19 bucks. (Lots of other cool, affordable, entry-level kits for the solderer in your life, including a sweet little Simon game, too.)
Multimeter Kit
Ill-advised airplane bathroom craft projects
The Things He Carried – Magazine – The Atlantic
“The whole system is designed to catch stupid terrorists,” Schnei er told me. A smart terrorist, he says, won’t try to bring a knife aboard a plane, as I had been doing; he’ll make his own, in the airplane bathroom. Schnei er told me the recipe: “Get some steel epoxy glue at a hardware store. It comes in two tubes, one with steel dust and then a hardener. You make the mold by folding a piece of cardboard in two, and then you mix the two tubes together. You can use a metal spoon for the handle. It hardens in 15 minutes.”
How to Trick Yourself into Writing
YouTube – 20100731-Ignite-MakerFaireDetroit-08-DavidErikNelson-Writing
The first few words of my talk were cut off; they were: “My name is David Erik Nelson, and I make my living by writing.”