From New World Geek comes this curious strategy for dealing with hard times. Two Seattle architects have set up a Lucy from Peanuts-like 5¢ advice booth in a Seattle farmer’s market. Their mission: Architecture 5¢ is about starting conversations, it’s that simple. People have questions about how they want to live in their home; whether […]
Make: Day was crawling with robots of all sizes. We were luck to have The Twin Cities Robotics Group show off tons of their own robots as well as bring kits for kids to make their own! Upload your photos or video from Make: Day to our Flickr pool. Alan Kilian and the rest of […]
Make these petite watermelons from Chocolate on my Cranium who makes these for her daughters’ tea parties. Thanks Chrissy!
Make: Day was a huge success! With the aid of over 25 Makers from the Twin Cities area, and thousands more families and Maker enthusiasts, we took over the Science Museum of Minnesota in downtown St. Paul on Saturday. Make: Day was emceed by Make: magazine contributor and Make: television Technical Advisor, Bill Gurstelle, and […]
I am swooning from this brilliant thrift store revamp from Hannah of Made With Love by Hannah. She’s taken a “dorky sweater vest” and transformed it into a dirndl bodice-like top. She’s included a diagram drawing of how she cut and transformed the piece on her blog. I think this could be my favorite thrift […]
Liz writes in with information about an innovative new project to convert surplus shipping containers into medical clinics for people in the developing world. As it turns out, shipping containers are a pretty useful even if they aren’t shipping stuff around. A shipping container, once retrofitted for use as a health clinic, is a durable, […]
Here are some of my favorite posts from the CRAFT blog this week: Soft Pressure Sensor Matrix CRAFT Recipe: Spinach and Yogurt Borani Checkin’ In: Fashion Nerd Diana Eng Ask CRAFT: Cat-Scratched Couch And in this week’s video, I show you how to make a QR code scarf!
