I’m a big fan of rendering food in felt, so I’m loving this harvest meal set from Dana at Made. The tutorial was a winner in the So You Think Your Crafty contest, and she shows how to make turkey drumsticks, bread with butter or jam, broccoli, grapes and pumpkin pie (complete with removable whipped […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool Alas, old friend VHS – has it really come to this?! Doomed to spend the rest of your media lifecycle supporting stacks of newfangled digital media. *Sigh* … and how much longer ’til we see those same DVD cases supporting a heap of flash drives/etc? I’ll keep an eye on […]
In 1913, Italian painter and composer Luigi Russolo created a new type of musical instruments he dubbed the “Intonarumori”, or “noise intoners”. The sounds produced by these devices were definitely unusual for his era and you’d be hard pressed to find anything similar to it today. An explanation of intonarumori construction via Wikipedia – Although […]
Maker Aki Mimoto wrote in to let us know about his exciting new Arduino/VR/Web app mashup. He’s wired up his wife’s bike on a stationary platform to an Arduino using a reed sensor. Using the sensor data from the bike, along with data from a head mounted display (HMD), Ari is able to accurately pinpoint his position within Google Street View.
Congratualtions to Joyce in Iowa City, IA, Jennifer in Jeffersonville, IN, and Debra in Marshal, MN for each winning a copy of The Shrinky Dinks Book by Sheri Haab & the editors of Klutz as well as a refill set from last week’s giveaway. Thanks to everyone who entered!
Our buds at iFixIt wanted to see a teardown of a new Motorola Droid, so they offered a $300 bounty to the first person who’d field strip and document the deconstruction of their Droid. Dr. Wreck answered the call. Here are the results of his investigation. Kyle, of iFixIt, writes: The phone was quite a […]
This week’s flashback is as fun as it is useful, brought to you by our own Make: Online contributing writer and the host of Make: television, John Edgar Park. Originally appearing on the pages of MAKE Volume 12, the Lego Recharger helps keep your gadgets all juiced up and stores your keys too. How incredibly […]
