Pastries Dissected
Artist Kathryn Parker Almanas takes apart pastries in a scientific style, then photographs the arrangements. I’ve never seen such a clinical danish. Via Buzzfeed.
Year: 2009
Pet Projects book review
Pet Projects came into the office recently, and I have to admit a high degree of skepticism at first. Does the world really need another book of pet knits? Even if it does, is it really likely that someone who has a horse will also have a dog, a cat, a turtle, a hamster, and […]
BurdaStyle: Stitched Valentine Cards – Punch Card and Puzzle
BurdaStyle shows you how to create your own unique stitched Valentine Cards with this Valentine Punch Card and Puzzle Card projects. These fun projects are sponsored by us at CRAFT! BurdaStyle writes: Valentine’s approaching quickly. These two card ideas are simple, fast and fun to make. Make a puzzle to deliver your message, or satisfy […]
MAKE: television Episode 6 – the torrent
Here’s the torrent of Episode 6 of Make: television! Episode 106: Music Machines & Trebuchet Enter the plugged-in world of Tim Kaiser, a maker who fashions experimental musical instruments from scavenged objects. In the Workshop John Park assembles a portable trebuchet from plastic plumbing pipe, and circuit bender Bianca Pettis demystifies the art of soldering. […]
HOW TO – Make a Gray Hoverman UHF antenna
MAKE subscriber William F. Dudley Jr. sent us a link to his plans for building a Gray Hoverman UHF Antenna. Why would you want/need a UHF antenna? He explains: Assuming you get your television “over the air”, i.e. from an antenna, then after the transition to digital television, sometime after February 17, 2009, channels 2,3,4 […]
HOW TO – Make a Five Minute Notebook
See, there’s lots of things you can do in 5 minutes! Make Les Plus Beauxx’s beautiful five minute notebook to jot down inspirations or special notes to yourself. [ via Whip Up ]
Staredown betwen Tim O’Reilly and Einstein at TED
Joi Ito took this fantastic photo (Creative Commens Attribution 2.0 Generic License) of Tim O’Reilly studying David Hanson’s Einstein robot at TED last week. We plan to publish a robotics issue of MAKE later this year, and we’d like to include a project for making a robot that has facial expressions. If you’ve built such […]