HOW TO – Cat Quilt
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories has a howto up on making a fishbowl quilt for your cat to sit on! In my house this would really free up the people-blanket space!
Year: 2009
HOW TO – Make Skittles vodka
Taste the rainbow… HOW TO – Make Skittles vodka! Mix that drink writes… Infusing vodka with Skittles is a very popular trend right now. There are a couple of different ways to do it. My way involves separating all the Skittles into their separate flavors and making five different bottles of Skittles vodka.
HomeBrew Robotics Club presentation on making Beagle Board robots
This slide deck is a good resource for anyone looking to build a robot based on TI’s Beagle Board: At the Homebrew Robotics Club in Silicon Valley, on Nov 19, 2008, Nathan Monson introduced the BeagleBoard, focusing on the hardware and software features that make it popular among robot hobbyists. Building Robots with the BeagleBoard […]
Perkins Duo Featured as Make Believers on CNNMoney.com
Crafty power house sisters, Jennifer and Hope Perkins, were two of the talents featured in Fortune Small Business’ article on CNNMoney.com about Maker Faire. The most recent Austin Faire teemed with accidental entrepreneurs who had dreamed up a fun product or fixed a problem that bugged them, and only later discovered a market. For most […]
SteamTV – Lost Knowledge follow-up
In poking around the InterTubes yesterday, looking for items related to my latest Lost Knowledge column, I happened upon Jake von Hildebrandt’s SteamTV project, which uses the Nipkow disk TV technology I included in the column. And a Jensen desktop steam engine for power! Really cool. Unfortunately, it appears that this project hasn’t been worked […]
Flashback: Mod Your Rod
Straight out of the 2005 archives, the Mod Your Rod special section in MAKE Volume 03 has got to be one of my favorites of all time.
Ask CRAFT – New Weekly Column!
I’m totally psyched to announce a new weekly column here on the CRAFT blog called Ask CRAFT. We want you to write in with your crafty conundrums, your material mysteries, your technique troubles! I’ll scour all resources available to me to bring you an answer. Some weeks will be video responses, some weeks text, but […]