One of my favorite comic-book publishers, Drawn & Quarterly, has teamed up with Atelier Woodenapples to present POMME-POMME, a new craft and zine fair happening this weekend in Montreal. They’ve got some great vendors lined up, including Supayana, Pin Pals, and Reprodepot Fabrics. Great event poster by Julia Rothman, too! Pomme-Pomme Sat. & Sun., July […]
Steampunk Workshop has a photo piece on cigar box guitar maker Mark Melchior (Hot Springs, Arkansas): …he searches local antique shops for older boxes to build these one of a kind pieces. Most boxes he chooses are pre-30’s and are solid wood. They feature skeleton keys for bridges and key escutcheons for sound holes. The […]
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Flickr member Kc7fys built this fine little voltage meter to indicate battery level using a bi-color LED and an LM358 op-amp chip – I could measure the resistance values and just use regular resistors to make it smaller. It tells me when my radio power supply (battery pack) is […]
Jonah @ MAKE writes: We’ve posted lots in the past about NYC Metrocard art projects, but this one might just take the cake. This Metrocard bicycle is completely covered with hundreds of the cards, perhaps to make a statement about human powered vehicles vs. taking mass transit and the environmental impact you will have (not […]
Strolling by a local bar this past weekend, something unusual caught my eye – a huge wooden ‘connect four’ game complete with king-sized game-pieces. The bartender didn’t have a lot of info to share about the impressive recreational centerpiece other than the fact that it’s creator was a friend of the owners. If anyone has […]
Sew, Mama, Sew! shows you how to customize your summer wardrobe with fun appliqués–you can even download some appliqué template shapes like starfish, a sea anemone, and a seahorse.
We at Maker Media are thrilled to announce that we’re going to be doing a Best of Instructables, Volume 1. As part of the book, we want to get the Instructables community involved in choosing some of their favorite projects. The book will include both projects chosen by Maker Media and Instructables staffs and those […]
