Video technology sure has come a long way in the past 30 years. In the early days the first video recorders used by TV production crews were large quad decks about the size of refrigerator lying on its back and recorded video onto 2-inch wide videotape. Now you can easily find camcorders that fit in […]
Although it doesn’t really work like the real game, some kid turned his neighborhood streets into a Guitar Hero game board where you have to successfully bike over the icons from the game, made in chalk on the street. Although doing this successfully will not actually play the game or score you points, the effort […]
“VideoMan”, is a performance / street intervention project by Mexican artist Fernando Llanos where the artist wears a custom built suit comprised of a video camera, projector, large portable battery pack, power inverters, amplifiers, and other noise generators. Walking around city streets, Llanos projects varied imagery of news broadcasts and other themed material. Check out […]
By way of the Make: Flickr pool comes these awesome junkbot sculptures made by Mario Caicedo Langer from Bogotá, Colombia. Ecodiseño
I’ve been wanting to try out potato printing for a while now–hadn’t done it since I was a kid–and I also needed some new kitchen curtains, so I decided to kill two birds with one stone and stamp up some new window coverings. This is an extremely quick and easy project you can whip up […]
One Pearl Button shows us how to turn an oversized men’s work shirt into a sweet shoulder-warming cape.
Over the past couple of years, the Make: Books team has been coming out with hands-on books covering everything from making wearable electronics to creating your own home chemistry lab. We’ve got all these books up for sale in Maker Shed, but we’ve also got a big selection of books from other publishers. Each year […]
