Nic @ Ponoko writes: Our first Ponoko 10-Day Design Challenge has just reached an end and was a HUGE success! Our congratulations to Clark Bardsley (aka seeingthingsconz) who won the $1,000 grand prize with his Season Chain jewelry design. Judges, Ponoko Dan and Naughty Secretary Jen, agreed that Clark’s design was attention grabbing, unique, interactive, […]
Danielle Thompson describes her process for making this beautiful yarn wreath, which practically shouts SPRING! She used various yarns and vintage millinery items which create a fresh and playful look. Springtime Yarn Wreath Related: • Felted Recycled Sweater Wreath • Make a Mushroom Wreath • Vintage Button Wreath
What a great use for that old, or broken, VCR & mouse you have lying around collecting dust. This looks fairly easy to make, and the end results will improve your productivity. This guide is to illustrate how to make your own “Knob”, very similar to the Griffin Powermate. Now, the knob I showcase HERE […]
Make: Books indexer extraordinaire Patti Schiendelman sent us a link to this seriously cool UK catalog of “Weird, smart, strange, bizarre, electronic, technology resources and materials.” Hey, that sounds like our market demo! Shape Memory Polymer (SMP) The material is a cast thermo-setting resin with extraordinary memory properties. Most polymers have some ‘memory’ but this […]
Here’s a fun event for SF Bay area makers – This year the San Francisco Bay Area will be home to the largest Yuri’s Night celebration ever. At the NASA Ames Research Center over 8,000 people will join astronauts, artists, musicians, scientists and engineers to learn, celebrate, and pay tribute to our global space heritage; […]
WOW, was yesterday’s Safe Sparkle Rally ever fun! If you’re just tuning in, a whole bunch of crafty LA-area peeps–including CRAFT’s Carla Sinclair, Cathy of California, Cathie Filian, My Imaginary Boyfriend and many more–met up with The Crafty Chica in front of NBC Studios yesterday, to help spread the word of glittery love. We were […]
“3ricj” sent in this instructable on how to build a thermal test chamber. Why do you need a thermal test chamber? I’ll let “3ricj” explain: Getting stuff *really* cold is difficult, dangerous, and lots of fun. Our group is preparing to send an autonomous glider up to about 100,000 feet, so we needed a way […]
