Q1: Hello.
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@MakersHour #MakersHour A1: I'm gonna say that time I learned to draw by sketching one Pokemon a day until I ran out (I think after Sun/Moon, so just over a thousand days).
I started on a whim because I was bored and lonely and had been watching a lot of Bob Ross, and since then I haven't done much drawing because holding a pencil cramps my hand up.
@WizardOfDocs
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@Stratski
Excellent!You could do one with the camera in the eye piece, via a semi tranparent mirror.
36 photos of an eyeball!@MakersHour haha, creepy!
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@MakersHour A1. Strangest make? Maybe a recent utilitarian patch, bright pink "duck tape" wrapped round the little fin antenna on our otherwise unremarkable electric hatchback sedan, to find it in parking lots among others of its style.
Otherwise most of my creations are theme and variations on needlework, appliqué, piecing, and digital collage.
@jmeowmeow
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@MakersHour haha, creepy!
@Stratski
And no one would need know until afterwards!
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Q1: Hello. Some of us have created some very strange things over the years, what’s the strangest (for you) thing you have ever made? #MakersHour
A1: this is a difficult one. The first thing that comes to mind was I had to make two clear backpacks that could be taken to a protest a day away. Everything we would need had to be in there, and it had to be clear to be or it would be taken away. Found some marine vinyl that was not too hard to sew and whipped them up in about four hours.
Oh, also a lot of weird props for shows like giant teapots and mushrooms, large cheese slices.
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Q1: Hello. Some of us have created some very strange things over the years, what’s the strangest (for you) thing you have ever made? #MakersHour
@MakersHour As a teacher, I once was about to do the the magnet-and-iron-dust-on-paper experiment with my class, but discovered too late that we didn't have a magnet! What we did have, though, was a copper coil, some rusty nails, and a battery. I put the nails inside the coil, connected the battery and got the nails *just* magnetised enough to do the experiment and show the magnetic patterns. I made a magnet.
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@MakersHour As a teacher, I once was about to do the the magnet-and-iron-dust-on-paper experiment with my class, but discovered too late that we didn't have a magnet! What we did have, though, was a copper coil, some rusty nails, and a battery. I put the nails inside the coil, connected the battery and got the nails *just* magnetised enough to do the experiment and show the magnetic patterns. I made a magnet.
Excellent - a double lesson - what magnets do, and how they are made!
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@thegiddystitcher @MakersHour @davetansley these would be an amazing way to cover the soil of pot plants
@afewbugs This sounds like the perfect gift idea for my skull-liking, plant-growing housemate; they'd love little skulls for this purpose. We already have all kinds of little random things in the plant pots...
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@MakersHour As a teacher, I once was about to do the the magnet-and-iron-dust-on-paper experiment with my class, but discovered too late that we didn't have a magnet! What we did have, though, was a copper coil, some rusty nails, and a battery. I put the nails inside the coil, connected the battery and got the nails *just* magnetised enough to do the experiment and show the magnetic patterns. I made a magnet.
@eivind
That is a very good way around it, and shows other electromagnetic principles at the same time.I noticed and photographed this in my workshop a while ago, while I was welding.
