DIY pepper mill kit
MAKE & CRAFT photo editor Sam Murphy points us to this kit for making your own pepper mill. It includes all the complicated grinding hardware and a walnut blank. Lathe not included.
Year: 2008
MAKE presents: The LED
LEDs are in technology all around us, familiar and helpful for sure but you may wonder – Who invented them? How do I use one? Is it possible to make my own LED?!? Learn the answers to these baffling questions and more in – MAKE presents: The LED Suscribe to the MAKE podcast | Download […]
A.M. Eye Candy – Garland Forest
Check out these inspiring and beautiful images from Jill Bliss and Saelee Oh’s opening this last weekend at Tinlark.
Help save the ACCRC
James Burgett of ACCRC’s skull of junked electronics (photo via Dale Dougherty) The Alameda County Computer Resource Center could really use your help, as Dale writes on boingboing: ACCRC is in desperate straits. The Bay Area electronics recycler is going through tough times with an emergency re-org and a lack of funds to pay taxes […]
HOW TO – Margaret Sling Bag
Elizabeth from Oh Fransson has a tutorial and pattern for how to make this Margaret sling bag. She posted it early enough that you can make the bag for a holiday present.
Elementary school music video makers
Students @ Bancroft Elementary School in Montreal, Quebec are making some awesome music videos as part of the Modern Music Makers after-school program students (five to ten years old) are divided into groups of four (give or take), and given the means to make their own songs from scratch. Explains Shaw: “Each group got a […]
Software synth controlled via digital pruning
Synplant takes a unique approach to creating sound with software synthesizers – Each patch starts as a ‘seed’ that sprouts branches towards parameters you choose. Decide you don’t like a certain aspect of the voice? – just clip off the branch. Or if you like it a whole bunch, replant it as its own seed. […]
