All_Thumbs has a downloadable/printable paper catamaran you can make – “Cut and fold a sailing catamaran for your nearest “ocean”. It can carry a crew of ants, pepples, or some of your sister’s favourite (miniature) dolls. You will need a pair of scissors and an A4 80g/sqm office paper. (No sweat, the design can modified […]
In honor of CRAFT magazine, Craftster.org’s Leah Kramer helped host a cool craft challenge — a call to crafters to make a zombie, robot, or bear based on our feature cover story. Here’s the winner, MariskaLovesCrafts, who made a stuffed Zombie bear. She’ll be getting a free one year subscription to CRAFT! Congrats! See more […]
MAKE Instructable group member Fireballxl5 writes – “This is a set of detailed instructions for a mod to the rotor shaft of the Picoo-Z mini-helicopter; replacing the original steel shaft with a carbon fiber shaft and installing ball bearings in place of the copper/brass bearing…” – Link. Related: PiccoZ mods (hop-ups) and more – Link.
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Fefillo (and MAKE & CRAFT Halloween contest entrant) shows you how to make your own Mr. T costume – Link. Related: MAKE Halloween projects – Link. MAKE Halloween archives – Link. I pity the fool who don’t enter the MAKE & CRAFT Contests! Makers and Crafters, it’s time to enter […]
I’m still figuring out what to be for Halloween and Crafty Chica, Kathy Cano Murillo’s Beehive wig project is giving me some instant inspiration. I love the funky look and the added embellishments like the fake flower. Link.
I really tweak out Firefox to get stuff done and installing alpha/beta/new stuff doesn’t usually scare me away – so here’s a super-quick review of Firefox 2.0 (out today) and three cool new features. The search box has the auto-suggest feature, so as you type it helps you find what you’re looking for. Spell check […]
Each Tuesday we have “The Maker File” – an interview with an interesting Maker and what they do, this week’s is an interview with Tim Black from the Mad Scientists collective by MAKE & CRAFT publisher, Dale Dougherty. The Mad Scientists are a group of Silicon Valley techies who engage in art projects at Burning […]
