(Feb. 13, 2009) ESCONDIDO, CALIF.: Jim Lipka is demonstrating that pricey “HDTV” antennas aren’t necessary to pull in digital TV signals. Lipka is getting press for making functional TV antennas out of wire hangers and what appear to be picket-fence slats. He’s putting the devices together at less than $10 each, giving them away to […]
@NYC Toy Fair 2009 – We saw our pals from ScienceWiz, I’m a fan of their Electricity kit and Chemistry kit for kids, check’em out… Book/magazine/kit all rolled up in to one… Each of the ScienceWizâ„¢ kits is appropriate for a specific age range and covers a specific topic in science. Tested and refined over […]
Hey crafters! I’m so excited to kick off my new series of project posts today. Every Tuesday you can look forward to a brand new CRAFT tutorial–from sewing to cooking to knitting and more. Let’s start off with a fun paper project, shall we? I was looking for a fun and inexpensive way to decorate […]
Mehrshad writes in– Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of BUGsound, BUGsoundthe first of the five BUGmodules we announced last month at CES. With a speaker, microphone, hardware stereo codecs and four 3.5-mm stereo jacks, you can use BUG to build your own portable music player, speakerphone, audio server and more. Priced at $99 […]
We made bread using the New York Times‘ recipe for simple crusty bread. Thanks to Dale Dougherty for letting us know about it! The girls are using the spoons I whittled recently. Photo gallery here.
Here are some photos from the upcoming Maker Workshop segment where John Park makes some awesome mini-robots. We were motivated to do this segment after reading the original article from Volume 06 of MAKE magazine. Huge thanks to Gareth Branwyn for sharing his valuable knowledge with our production team, and to the Twin Cities Robotics […]
Australian crafter Louise Elliott has adorable, cheery cloth animal and doll kits available on her site. Each Animal of the World is adorned with ethnic patterns from its country of origin. There’s Boris the Russian bear, Danilo Donkey from Portugal, Chandra Tiger from Bengal, and a whole zoo of others. Louise also offers begging-to-be-colored coloring […]
