Steak Cake
PT @ MAKE points us to this steak cake by Meredith Newcom for the Threadcakes competition.
Year: 2009
Make: Science Room – Choosing a microscope
We’re in the process of working on a new area of Make: Online that we’re really excited about. It’s called the Make: Science Room. We’ll have a full announcement and launch in a few weeks. In the meantime, we thought we’d give you a teaser of the type of content we’ll be offering. The following […]
Open-source 3D DNA origami
So. Incredibly. Cool. What is DNA Origami? DNA origami is a powerful method for constructing DNA objects. It involves taking a long, single-stranded DNA backbone (usually about 7000 bases in length) and forcing it to adopt an arbitrary shape using hundreds of short, single-stranded DNA oligonucleotides (each usually 20 to 50 bases long). This method […]
How-To: Sew a Reversible Sun Hat
How-To: Sew a Reversible Sun Hat By Bernadette Noll and Kathie Sever Future Craft Collective This week I’m passing along a much-beloved pattern that has been in my lexicon of favorites for years now. It’s a super easy pattern that suits kids as well as adults, and it goes together in a snap. My 8-year-old […]
How-To: Fuse and Trace Your Sewing Patterns
Nicole at Stitch Craft has a tutorial on how to fuse and trace your patterns so that they are easier to cut-out and save. Nicole writes: I don’t know a single person that likes patterns printed on tissue paper. My favorite patterns are printed on stiffer bond paper or even tag board. But most pattern […]
Crowdsourcing airport security wait times
Josh Sulkin, of FlyOnTime.us, has created this interesting little Twitter crowdsourcing experiment: I’d like to announce some major changes to the Apps For America 2 entry FlyOnTime.us, as well as ask for your help in a “crowdsourcing” experiment I’m conducting. First the experiment…I originally wanted to incorporate the data from the TSA’s airport security line […]
Broken Key Fix
With all the plastic key toppers for cars these days, here’s a crafty broken key fix from Swamp Yankees from Outer Space. (Thanks Laura!)