50% OFF Maker’s Notebooks and MAKE Halloween
Now through midnight on Sunday you can pick up a Makers Notebook or MAKE Halloween at a special Halloween discount. How much? How’s 50% off? Pick up one, or both, and start your Halloween building.
Year: 2009
Great online haunt resource
If you’re still looking for ideas for this (or next) year’s Halloween display, check out HauntProject.com. They’ve done a great job of assembling cool Halloween projects from all over the web and have nearly 1,000 indexed and categorized as of this writing. Shown here are three of my faves so far. Above, a sweet crashed flying saucer prop by Scott Rossi. Below, a motorized monster-in-a-box by Bob and Cindy Stewart.
How-To: Transfer Ink Jet Images to Wood With Mod Podge
Katie of matsutake shares how to transfer images from your ink jet printer to wood using Mod Podge and Elmer’s school glue. With drying time of overnight, it’s a craft for the patient, but the applications for this are endless and very cool. (And while you’re enjoying her blog, be sure to check out her […]
Musical Go boards
Some years ago, a conversation with my old friend Billy Baque turned to the subject of adapting board games for sightless play. When it came round to Go, Billy mentioned having read of an antique Korean board, hollow inside and strung with wires along the lines of the grid, the wires being tuned such that each intersection produced a unique musical interval when a stone was placed upon it. Whether this was simply an aesthetic embellishment or a means to make the game more accessible to sightless players, he did not know.
Shrines, Just Because
My neighbor Teresa Cuseo is an amazing artist and crafter — every time I talk to her or go over for a visit she’s doing something creative, from terrific mosaics to yummy baked goods to cool jewelry and clever shrines. She recently bought a Day of the Dead crafting book and has plans to make […]
PopTech reimagines America
The PopTech conference is currently underway in Camden, ME. We sent some emissaries from MAKE, namely Zach and Kim DeBord, Mike Gould, and Stuart Gaines. Zach is an artist and BEAMbot builder. He did the awesome bots (and photos) for my “Pummer, Dude!” [PDF] piece in MAKE, Volume 08. Mike Gould has a project, “Lunchbox […]
Bus-Tops: Interactive art on roofs
Here’s a neat physical computing project in London. The Bus-Tops project is planning to install around 40 LED screens on the tops of bus stations around London, and is inviting the public to develop content to put on them.
