Baking involves more chemistry than other types of cooking, so it’s important to get the quantities of your reactants correct. This traditional baguette recipe by Instructables user SoapyHollow measures its ingredients by weight.
Patricia of A Little Hut and her 2 kids celebrated the start of summer crafting with this fun collaborative project on making homemade wrapping paper.
One of the nifty little techno-trinkets Solarbotics was handing out to lucky folks at the Faire was their new NunChucky. This tiny PCB allows you to utilize the Wii Nunchunk as a project controller on a microcontroller module without having to cut the connector off the Nunchuck (so you can still use it with your […]
At Maker Faire, Jared Boone, of ShareBrained, premiered the Make: television jukebox. Fairgoers could plug in a thumbdrive, press a button, and have the selected episode loaded onto their USB drive. Here, Jared talks to Make: television’s John Edgar Park about the project. More: Make: television Vending Machine
Junk Revolution has a neat walkthrough showing the transformation of an old table into a fancy four-post cat bed. It’s gorgeous, but I’d worry that my cat would still prefer her cardboard box. Via New World Geek. More: Swanky cardboard cat lounger on MAKE
One of my personal high points at Maker Faire was being presented with this custom-made Solarbotics HexPummer Lantern by Dave Hrynkiw of Solarbotics. I was really touched. The gift encodes tons of meaning for me. I’ve known the Solarbotics folks since the “radio days” of cyberspace. They were one of the first e-commerce sites around, […]
Family Connection Letter Writing Center By Bernadette Noll and Kathie Sever Future Craft Collective In addition to being all about sustainable crafting, Future Craft Collective is also about building sustainable connection. When we spend our days with small children, so much of life has to be focused on the here and now that we sometimes […]
