My latest guilty SkyMall pleasure is this “Moloniki” transparent polycarbonate canoe by Clear Blue Hawaii. It’s 13′ long, 3′ wide amidships, and almost 1′ deep, and the polycarb is UV-stabilized to prevent sun-yellowing. Of course it looks cool, but what is really attractive, to me, is the prospect of being able to see what’s going […]
I’ve wanted to get into knifemaking since I was a teenager, but for years had been deterred by the belief that I first needed to buy a bunch of expensive equipment, like a 3-wheel belt grinder and an annealing oven. Then I found Wayne Goddard’s $50 Knife Shop, which is a compilation of material originally […]
Rosemarie Fiore makes a different kind of fire art. She uses controlled detonations of fireworks on paper to disperse bursts of saturated color. Her recent work is entitled Pyrotechnics Firework Drawings 2009, and Rosemarie explains her process: I bomb blank sheets of paper with different fireworks including color smoke bombs, jumping jacks, monster balls, fountains, […]
Steampunk devote slickshughes can only wear his goggles on his head because of his glasses, so he spruced up his forehead-only pair with some LEDs. Reminds me of The Fly. Light up goggle mod
We are proud of our friend and colleague, Thomas Zimmerman, who was honored today as California’s Volunteer of the Year. Tom, who has written a half dozen terrific how-to articles for MAKE (including an electronic drum kit, a lensless microscope, a simple way to interconnect protoboards, a one-string electric guitar from plastic tubing, a TV-to-synth […]
With summer vacations, trips, and occasions either being planned or in full force as we speak, you’re sure to end up with an external hard drive’s worth of images from your adventures. There are certainly no shortage of crafty ways to display and showcase those money shots, and one super fun way is by making […]
Artist Mindy Sue Meyers figured out a way to curb her excessive use of fiberfill when making plushies by starting with inflatable pool toys. For her purposes, a kids’ tube was a perfect base for this giant doughnut.
