Imagine pulling up to an empty lot with a CNC-controlled ShopBot router, a rubber mallet, and a pile of 600 sheets of plywood. Add in some unskilled labor and a few days, and you could end up with a livable, permanent structure. Ok, you will need to add electricity, plumbing, and lighting, but thanks to […]
Wendy Tremayne has graced the pages of CRAFT magazine since Volume 02 with her column Re: Fitted, exploring a different instance of creative reuse or green art in each installment. In Volume 03, she showed us how to use nature’s bounty to create natural boundaries, like this fence: And in Volume 06, she introduced us […]
By audience “vote” with applause (applause meter!) at the GreenGadget design competition presented by Core77 – the Tweet-a-watt won 1st place!! The prize was $3,000 and we’re donating it to Engineers without Borders – this open source hardware project, source code, schematics and all work present / future will be in the public domain. The […]
I have a mug made by the very talented Ayumi Horie that I use almost every day. She sends out one of the few email newsletters that I actually read! (For those of you in the Kansas City area, she’s teaching a workshop on Dry Throwing as well as the best way to get your […]
We have our five winners for the Crown Publishing giveaway of The Paper Architect. They are: Kelly Faerie Sleep Goblin Daniel Dorsen WoofBoy111 Richard Kaufman Congrats you guys! I’ll send you an email and you can return your mailing addresses. And after you make some of the projects in the book, please send us pictures […]
doe-c-doe has me swooning with these vintage images from the McCall’s Needlework magazine from the fall and winter of 1950-51. Related: Dreamy Vintage Sewing Advertisements
The Maker Profile segment in this past weekend’s episode of Make: television featured the talented Makers and musicians of CCRMA. Chris Warren of CCRMA sent us his instructions on how you can build your own Feedback Piano, as seen in the beginning of the segment. The Feedback Piano uses the strings and soundboard of a […]
