New Year’s Eve Treats
Going to or throwing a New Year’s Eve party, but need a last minute snack idea? Make it Do has two ideas for some tasty and easy treats.
Year: 2009
Art shanties return to the tundra
You’ve heard of art cars… but what about art shanties? These are ice fishing huts converted into habitable works of art. Now in its third year, the Twin Cities’ Art Shanty Projects returns to frozen Medicine Lake for another round of awesome huts. Art Shanty Projects is an artist driven temporary community exploring the ways […]
Klein Bottles ‘r’ them
In the market for a Klein Bottle or just a wool hat shaped like one? Check out the selection at Acme Klein Bottle. In 1882, Felix Klein imagined sewing two Möbius Loops together to create a single sided bottle with no boundary. Its inside is its outside. It contains itself. Take a rectangle and join […]
DIY beauty dish
Australian Flickr user Andrew converted a regular flash into a beauty dish by adding a 7″ stainless steel dish, a lid from a food tin, a “4n20 Pies giveaway stubby holder” and some pieces of Mechano. Here’s an example of the effects he got with his dish.
Map-inspired paintings
With GPS units shining from dashboards and Google Maps just a click away, maps have never been more of a part of our culture than they are now. Joshua Huyser’s cartographical explorations embrace such concepts as travel, movement, paths, and directions. Here’s what Huyser’s cryptic artist’s statement has to say: My senses are to blame. […]
Craft Group Provides Connections in Homeless Shelter
A beautiful story of the therapeutic benefits of crafting from the Boston Globe. At the Barbara McInnis House in the South End, where people dealing with homelessness also suffer the pains of medical illnesses, a surprising sort of therapy has brought them together with volunteers in what has become a curative social group. Young and […]
10 things to do with a new Arduino
Matt over at Liquidware posted an evolution of simple introductory sketches for those fresh to the world of Arduino. A good starting point for those who find themselves with a new board, the examples require no additional hardware and demonstrate/combine digital output, serial communication, and their relevant functions. In the Maker Shed: Make: Arduino
