A few weeks ago Gareth had asked me to check out an article from an upcoming issue of MAKE. It was the Teacup Stirling Engine from Volume 17. Recently, I made the Gakken Stirling Engine Kit from the Maker Shed, which was really cool. However, I have never made one from scratch, and this was […]
I’m drooling over the new Sublime Stitching patterns by Jenny Hart. There are 4 new patterns: Garden Variety, Chinese Acrobats, Vintage Lamps, and Artist Series #7 Daniel Johnston.
Austin has been going nuts this week with all kinds of great events related to SXSW. I’m really looking forward to tomorrow’s Day Party for Craftster and Standard Recording. They’ll be demonstrating the Yudu personal screen printer, and will have craft projects, food, drinks and live music throughout the day. Jenny Hart from Sublime Stitching […]
There’s still time to start making or just watch this week’s Weekend Project: DIY Stilts . You can view the video here, or subscribe in iTunes to get all our Weekend Projects and PDFs delivered each week.
Feast eyes upon General Electric’s retro-beautifully animated film explaining the fundamentals of electricity. From the quite excellent Prellinger Collection of the Internet Archive. I had a hunch that electrons were cute and fun-loving, but I never imagined opposing charges being so darn burly! Come to think of it, I knew this little guy looked familiar […]
Make subscriber Matti sends us his recipe for an unusual looping interface – I found this old blender from a flea market and noticed that the names of the different blending modes are very similar to the terminology used in DJing. So I decided to turn this kitchen appliance into a DJ mixer. The audio […]
Arduino Blog reports on Mikael Moerup’s Gobetwino software – a basic proxy between Windows programs and Arduino boards (though it works with other serial-capable devices as well). Using the included command templates, one can write their own sketch capable of doing the following – Start a program on the PC. Start a program, and wait […]
