Mistletoe Ornament by Denise Colombe-Frye http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=5052953 By Arwen O’Reilly Denise Colombe-Frye’s ceramics are lovely earthenware homages to the leaves and flowers she sees around her in southern Wisconsin. Her leaves and plants (and even slugs!) are remarkably true to life; I must admit to being particularly fond of her mistletoe ornament. It has the perfect […]
The latest Instructables TV is out! Use home made devices to go kite ice butt boarding anywhere there is ice, wind and plenty of room, Tim writes – “Your screaming steel blades carve the ice. Your straining kite hurls you along at incredible speeds. You are mere inches above the ice. Or suddenly wiping out […]
Today is the last day to order physical goods from the MAKE store and get them before Christmas, just select Next Day FedEx shipping. If you don’t want to do that, why not send off a gift subscription and/or a gift certificate to that crafty maker you know.
Wil @ Engadget cooked up our MAKE Open source Daisy MP3, he writes – “We got a wiff of MAKE’s Daisy a while back, but now we’ve finally managed to get our hands on one of these open source MP3 player kits. Today we’ll whip out our soldering iron and show you how things shake […]
While Diana Eng and I were in Rhode Island a couple weeks ago for Craftland (See recap here), she gave myself and O’Reilly editors Brian Sawyer and Brian Jepson a tour of her alma mater RISD (Rhode Island School of Design). Creativity and innovation seemed to flow through the school and we were lucky to […]
From our MAKE TNT Newsletter, Arwen says, “I’m not a fan of most commercial perfumes (they don’t really smell like anything in particular), and neither, apparently, is Instructables user Rapiertwit. Check out this nice instructable on making solid perfume. It couldn’t be easier–the hard part is deciding which scent to use and who to give […]
Spark Fun Electronics poked at the EPROM on the Wii, fun stuff– “We just couldn’t not do it. We had to see what was on the Wii EEPROM. There’s surprising amount of 8051 instructions actually. How neat! We hot-aired off the EEPROM and soldered it down to our SSOP breakout board. We then hooked up […]
