How-To: Holiday Fabric Placemats
Looking to add a personal and crafty touch to your holiday table? Be sure to check out this tutorial from the folks at ReproDepot. I love the effect of the trim around the edges. See how they create it here.
Month: November 2009
Frostruder MK2
Zach Hoeken wrote up a nice piece about the design of the MakerBot Frostruder MK2, currently in its second prototype. He talks about the challenges of designing a cheap, small device capable of computer-controlled cupcake frosting: My first experiment was with some thick, chocolate frosting that you can find in nearly any grocery store. I […]
Skatchbox instrument amplifies plucking, picking, & scraping
Tom Nunn demonstrates the “skatchbox” a simple percussion box outfitted with contacts mics and a plethora of objects for scraping, tapping, swiping, etc. The shuffling and raspy textures the boxes make are pretty unique, certainly warranting further investigation by audio experimentalists out there. And if you’ve got some plastic combs, a piezo disc, and a […]
Big Papercraft Head
Gareth @ MAKE writes: Eric Testroete, a 3D character artist from Vancouver, sent us this awesome self-portrait costume, an homage to Big Head Mode in videogames. More photos at Eric’s Flickr.
CupCake CNC build, part 1: Introduction & background
Making of the Cupcake CNC from MakerBot Industries
How-To: Easy French Seams
I’m exposing myself a bit here as I admit that I’ve never sewn a French seam in my life. They always seemed a little … complicated and fancy. This tutorial on easy French seams from Sew to Speak, though, makes me want to finally give them a try!
Patchable digital synth with Arduino
From the MAKE Flickr pool The Arduino-based synth project formerly known as binder synth is now known as Adasynth – and it sounds like development is coming along right nicely. Davitr0n provides some background on his project – The goal of this project was to make a patchable synthesizer as versatile as we can while […]
