Kate of Two Little Banshees has a tutorial over on Living Creatively for putting together simple placemats using scraps of fabrics. I imagine this could be a lot of fun to do for your kids, and let them pick the scraps you use.
From the MAKE Flickr pool Wow – feeling pretty lucky I don’t share a workplace Flickr member zomie84 and his cubicle crossbow – Designed to shoot marshmellows, pens, or just about anything you can fit in it to attack your cube mates. I can get about 25ft with a bic pen. The trigger is spring […]
Bruno Mathez and Mike Blow’s art installation, PHOTOPHONICS, presents an interesting relationship between light-controlled oscillators and video projection – PHOTOPHONICS is the first result of Bruno’s 3d video-projection mapping experiments. It is a ‘dispersed instrument’ with a number of electronic oscillators created by Mike, positioned on architectural elements of the dark performance space. Each one […]
Russian modder mike_ap has crammed an Asus Eee PC 900 into a Sven Multimedia EL 4002 keyboard, and despite it being a little on the bulky side it’s still a sleek mod. Pure modern retro!
It’s Lucas again, our poster child for the MAKEcation Family Soldering Challenge. Here he is (note: safety glasses this time!) working on his second soldering project, a Drawdio. Lucas (and family) get a free Maker’s Notebook because they posted pics of their MAKEcation to the MAKE Flickr pool. The next four people who post their […]
Interested in using your Palm Pre as a WiFi router? Recent Pre convert Max Lee has written a tutorial that may get you closer to 3G tethering bliss.
Every year, Joe Grand, aka Kingpin, aka The Sultan of Solder, and hardware hacker extraordinaire, designs the badges for Defcon, the annual hacker convention in Vegas. The badges are more than just conference ID badges, they have electronics on-board that do something, and conferees have to figure out what that something is. There’s also a […]
