We’ve just started Day Two of Maker Faire Austin, and there are a ton of awesome crafty things to explore here. If you are coming out today, be sure to check out this list of “don’t miss” Makers. If you aren’t lucky enough to be in Austin right now, just enjoy the pictures and make […]
Candletech.com has a tutorial on how to make these glimmering water balloon luminaries. Thanks Karlie!
If you’ve ever been tasked with setting up a server room full of machines, you can sympathize with the challenge of doing this with 90 boxes that use slow Compact Flash storage. Hackszine reader Left-O-Matic sent in the following story in which he describes a pretty efficient way to clone a ton of Windows-based Blade […]
Once Upon a Holiday shows you the beauty of making handmade Halloween card in this tutorial which incorporates artwork from her young daughter.
Alexander and Ivan shared their awesome projects with fair-goers in the Austin Children’s Museum tent. Ivan (age 7) is here with his Mega Model; Alexander (age 9) has been building paper ships since he was 6 years old. See more pictures of kids (and grownups) at Maker Faire on Flickr!
Cindy of Skip to My Lou has simple Halloween decor project to make these Halloween votives from baby food jars.
This “Noriko-San” sleep mask was developed for “drowsy train commuters” afraid of sleeping past their stop and consists of a scrolling LED display that communicates the wearer’s destination to other passengers in the train. Of course, this relies on other people actually caring enough to wake you up in time, which its developer, Pyocotan, found […]
