HOW TO – Finger Knit
The {NewNew} York Etsy Street Team this month spotlights kids crafting. This finger knitting tutorial, brought to you by EcoKate.etsy.com is the perfect introduction to knitting for kids. Thanks Kimm!
Month: August 2008
Speaker cube
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Macetech writes – Some speakers from the TechShop junk shelves held together with zip ties. I should actually wire this up and put LEDs inside too! :) – I’m fairly sure adding LEDs would make that a full-on ‘party cube’. – Speaker Cube on Flickr From the pages of […]
HOW TO – Sew a Fabric Binder Cover
Just in time for Back to School, Lola…again! shows you how to sew up a fabric binder cover in her tutorial.
Building Benito
From the MAKE Flickr pool(originally) Assembling Feurig’s open source Serial to USB converter seems a worthwhile way to try your hand at surface-mount soldering. – The benito board was designed to allow people with intermediate soldering skills to build their own Atmel AT90usb162 based devices. The processor itself is a tqfp and the remaining components […]
Interview with Louie Raffloer, blacksmith
I recently did an email interview with blacksmith Louie Raffloer of Seattle’s Black Dog Forge; I also visited the forge to see a demonstration of his induction forge. The shop is an amazing place, with a huge assortment of equipment, art, anvils, and racks bristling with tools – a collection that’s obviously taken years to […]
DIY Channel cutting blade
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Ranjit needed a specific tool, so he made it – …a double-bladed knife for cutting channels in tape. (Thanks to the tape goddess for encouragement!) I’m gonna try to use it to make flexible circuit boards from copper tape. Construction method: jam two blades in one handle. (Use a […]
SF CRAFT: 08 Release Party Wrap-Up
Tina and I had a great time hanging out at Derek and Lauren’s The Curiosity Shoppe where throughout the afternoon crafters got a chance to learn how to weave with our cover crafter, Travis Meinolf. I got to film Travis for a CRAFT Video Podcast on weaving which will be up next Friday. You can […]