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Inkle Weaving: Wood to Ribbon
Nothing special to see here. So… I’ve successfully demonstrated proof of concept with my Inkle Loom efforts. On Friday, I had wood as raw materials, screws, dowels, and bolts. Monday, I put those...
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Caveman Chemistry Chapter 6: Textiles
monomers, polymers, and a piece of my two-ply cording. Some of you may recall that I was working my way through a book called Caveman Chemistry. I made mead (that was Chapter 4), and learned to make...
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Game Wizard Workshops
I’ve been running a series of workshops under the title “Game Wizard” based on the success of the workshop we ran last year where kids built chess sets. I learned to play chess under different...
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Making a Globe
A basic globe shape Students at my school have been facing some geography challenges. We participate in a number of geography events, including the National Geographic Geography Bee, which covers...
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Design Lab: Workbench
There are no pictures today. My cellphone/camera died early in the day, and construction didn’t start until late afternoon. But, I built the right-hand-most section of this workbench today, with the...
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A New Type of Writing?
Kalagni posted a piece on her blog just recently that left me awed. It was, in essence, a series of short sentences, each of which contained a link to a story or news item. Some of them came from the...
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Search Term Shootback: March 2015
Sam does this really neat thing that I’ve long admired over at Digital Ambler where he reviews the most popular search terms from the previous month that brought people to his blog. Some of the search...
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Design Lab: Today I learned to Lucet
My handmade lucet, and some cord I made today. Lucet is a yarn or string technique, whereby a piece of yarn or string can be made into a stronger or more effective cord or thread. The process uses a...
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Search Term Trackback: April
Digital Ambler does this thing at the start/end of each month, where he lists the most common search terms for people who come to his blog, and explains where on his blog to find that material. tattwa...
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Search Term Track Back June 2015
I learned this from Sam at Digital Ambler, who is one of the most sophisticated modern writers about Geomancy that I know of. And “This” in this case, is the reconnection of the blog to its ten or...
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Computers: a short assignment in programming
I’ve been teaching programming for two years. I’m really not very good at teaching programming, which is why I haven’t talked about it here very much. At first, I used JavaScript programming, because...
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Autumn Maker School: Hexagon Program
This post is part of a larger series called the Autumn Maker School. The idea is to make ten things, mostly useful or to self-teach certain skills, and then write about them. The first post was about...
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Autumn Maker School: Khonsu, Re-membered
This post is part of my Autumn Maker School project. The idea is to make ten useful things. As Stacey has figured out, my definition of ‘useful’ is pretty broad-based, because I have my work cut out...
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Autumn Maker School: Picture IDs
I’m running a program on my blog from October 2 to December 21: Autumn Maker School. The goal is to make ten useful things this fall, with a fairly broad definition of ‘useful’: So far I’ve made a 1)...
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School: Redesign Homework
Around this time of year, I always think about how I’m going to re-design my teaching for the fall semester. It doesn’t matter whether I’m teaching or not, I think about it. A recent conversation with...
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