At this year’s Maker Faire, our friends at iFixit are on a mission to “Fix the World!” (starting with the easier-to-tackle mechanical/electronic world). They’re hosting a new repair section at the fair. They want to show people how to fix all sorts of things — and they need your help (’cause fixin’ the world ain’t […]
I wanted to share this email from Eleanor M. Rust who wrote to say that community colleges in California are a great resource for makers who want to learn new skills. I just bought my first copy of MAKE after being a CRAFT reader for a while, and I’m really enjoying it! But a remark […]
Alex asks: I’ve brewed beer at home three times, but one thing has always proved to be a problem: How do I get a siphon going well for moving my cooled wort into my primary fermenting bucket, and then for bottling? When I put my mouth on the tube to start the flow, it de-sanitizes […]
Marie of Make and Takes has a tutorial on how to make these easy hooded bath towels perfect for babies or kids. Marie writes: I make each of my kids their own bath towel hoodie when they’re born, starting with my son 6 years ago. I make them one with their name on it and […]
Edwin Wise is no stranger to the pages of MAKE magazine, and special effects are his specialty. It’s only natural that he contributed a couple of DIYs to our Halloween Special Issue back in 2007, including the Hot Glue Spider Web Gun and the classic animatronic prop, the Flying Crank Ghost: In Volume 13, he […]
Wow, this “fluid sculpture” by Casual Profanity is really mesmirizing. It uses a nifty knitter to knit up a section of surgical tubing, through which colored liquid is pumped, creating really interesting patterns. I can’t stop watching! Via Pixelsumo. More: Blood scarf by Laura Splan
We’ve been having a bit of a tech-crush here at MAKE, on pneumatic tube systems. We wrote about it in a recent Lost Knowledge column, talked about it on Make: Talk, and Dale went to Molly Wright Steenson’s inspiring talk at ETech. In this San Jose Ignite video, entitled “It Really is a Series of […]
