Erica Magrey made this pair of boots entirely from scratch. She recounts what’s involved in her epic journey from DIY enthusiast to footwear design student, and finally to these gorgeous handmade boots. In the Maker Shed: CRAFT, Vol. 07
Get your entries in, the Alex Rider Dream Gadget Contest deadline is Tuesday, December 22 at 11:59PM PST! MAKE is teaming up with the Penguin Group to present The Alex Rider Dream Gadget Contest! All of you adventure-seekers and gadget lovers out there are invited to join in. If you were Alex Rider, what gadget […]
Jan of Daisy Jane shares this yummy recipe download for her Aunt Jane’s Nut Roll, a bread filled with walnuts and spices. She also points out that the recipe goes together easily, makes loads of bread and freezes well, making it a great alternative to working away for hours on batches of decorated cookies!
Flickr user Andrew Colunga describes this awesome Lego ray gun as “X-maspunk.” [via Boing Boing]
A beautiful piece of glass-filled nylon jewelry, which I think was a senior design project, from Molly Epstein of Temple University. [via Boing Boing]
Ian from weezey.com wired up a couple of Peggy2 light emitting pegboard kits to an Arduino and with a couple of tweaks to some existing code managed to get the display to run across both units.
Hoshigaki is the Japanese art of drying persimmons. DeepCraft has just undertaken the beautiful task. Ene recently discovered the Japanese art of Hoshigaki, a technique of drying fruit by a combination of open-air hanging and hand massaging. The fruit is picked before it fully ripens, with a section of branch left attached, then it is […]
