Make editor and publish Dale Dougherty lent a hand to GOOD Magazine for their recent High tech/Low tech issue. He came up with the idea for their Project page, a bimonthly experiment in open source creativity. The assignment? Document a craft or trade in danger of extinction. By way of example, Dale visited the workshop […]
I asked the Make and Craft crews to tell me about their favorite Halloween costumes and if they had any special costume plans for this year. Some of the stories are absolutely hilarious. This is a two-parter; look for the second half tomorrow! Brian Jepsen (contributing editor): As a kid, I was drawn to vivid […]
The Best of Interweave Knits is new in print celebrating their 10th anniversary, but you can still pick your favorite patterns their new Readers Choice Awards. The top 5 patterns to get the most votes will be published in a free eBook! From the site: Nominate your all-time favorite pattern from Interweave Knits (published between […]
Wow! Here’s the latest Instructables contest, win a laser cutter! fungus amungus writes – This is another chance for you to win one of our favorite tools, but this time it’s bigger and better! The VersaLaser functions like a true plug and play computer peripheral. It has a friendly, materials-based print driver that eliminates complex […]
The Sky Puter is essentially a computer without a case, while all components are suspended from the ceiling with a combination of coat hangers, cat5, and cat3 cable. Your airflow doesn’t really get any better than this. To me it looks like a still frame of a computer exploding. – [via] Link.
Start saving up to shop this Sunday at the SF Craft Mafia’s Mafia Made DIY Trunk show. The event is happening at the beautiful Hall of Flowers in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco from Noon to 5pm. The 2nd annual event will showcase the brilliant, diverse work of over 40 clothing, accessories, jewelry, craft-related […]
Yaakov writes – This little perl program allows you to set the “Ready Message” on HP printers to whatever you’d like. (if you want to run it under Windows, and don’t know how, read this.) I wrote it after coming across the command in an HPPJL (HP Printer Job Language) reference manual I was reading […]
