Cathe of Just Something I Made has found a fantastic way to incorporate the lush images of her vintage SINGER sewing machine into other projects. After taking detail shots of the machine’s decals and cleaning them up in Photoshop, she created printable decals that she used to decorate her Moleskine notebook. Brilliant!
Check out the Make:NYC meeting next Wednesday!
David Carpenter is an effects professional, so this tutorial he’s posted looks especially interesting. Apparently the last three steps (fitting, electronics, and painting) are still incomplete, but the first five are worth the click.
Alex Merto painstakingly drew over 53.000 little X’s in this window display in SoHo for the Tools for Living Artist Window Series. [via Core77]
Tali of Growing Up Creative has started a new series on her blog called Eco Kids Craft, that focuses on kid-friendly craft projects with recycled materials. Her first project shows how you can turn simple cardboard tubes into striking wall art.
Console hacker extraordinaire Benjamin J. Heckendorn (aka Ben Heck) built this one-off PS3 Slim laptop for portable gaming without compromise.
Our copy chief, Keith Hammond, circulated this in internal Maker Media email. It’s from a piece on Washington Post columnist Joel Achenbach’s blog, from back in June. Advice to graduates: Become an engineer. Design the future. Become someone who knows how to squeeze energy out of seawater or turn sunlight into electricity for pennies on […]
