Add more fun to your knitting by making your own knitting needles. Editor Brian Sawyer has a cool post on making your own knitting needles using skewers and sharpening to the right size. I love the button tops that adorn the needles. Link. Whip Up has also got a cool collection of tutorials on how […]
Part robotic plant life, part techno-sculpture, these desktop toys are easy and fun to make, the pummer! – and hey, it’s Friday so here’s a free article just for our blog readers from the pages of MAKE 08 – Toys and games. Click here to download the PDF, or get this PDF and many others […]
Bleu Arts’ Ansley has a great how-to on how to create your own lip balm recipe. There’s a great explanation and tips about certain ingredients and essential oils. Great gift project! Link. Related: Not Martha lip balm tutorial – Link. Cat Morley coco lip balm – Link.
MAKE reader Thewicked writes in with this tip “Here’s a good use for an old printer, gut it, save the motors for projects and use it as bread box!”
Darren writes – “After seeing Gwon Osang’s photo collage sculptures [on MAKE], his work reminded me of an artist who visited my university last year. Oliver Herring, who has been featured on the PBS art documentary, Art:21 has also make sculptures from photographing his subjects. On top of that, he has some very large knitting […]
Here’s a low-tech way of fixing a broken pin on a hard drive using some tin foil and a sewing pin. Thanks Dayne! – Link.
Imagine being able to program your bumper sticker to say anything you want… CRAVE has a quickie about VW’s programmable electronic bumper sticker that “enables drivers to communicate real-time messages to other road users”… – Link. There are a lot of ways to do this now (LEDs, e-ink…) and I bet we’ll see some from […]
