From the MAKE Flickr pool Impressionist painters on-the-go will appreciate PBNJ smurf’s ARToids ultra-compact watercolor set – A portable watercolor kit made from an old altoids smalls tin & bakeable polymer. I wanted a minimalist kit that I could take along to add color to journal pages. (I have a small travel kit already, I […]
Dan Woods, Associate Publisher of MAKE tipped me off to Julia Suits’ chess pieces made from nuts and bolts. She writes: Headed toward the light-bulb aisle in my local hardware store a few years ago,I stopped to admire the bins of nuts,bolts and the like. This is not unusual for me who likens this kind […]
In the Make: Online Toolbox, we try to focus on tools that fly under the radar of more conventional tool coverage: in-depth tool-making projects, strange or specialty tools unique to a trade or craft that can be useful elsewhere, tools and techniques you may not know about, but once you do, and incorporate them into […]
Oobject has a fun round-up of the sonic assault vehicles known as boombox bikes. And you thought that kid on the bus with the Walmart special slung over his shoulder was obnoxious. This one comes with instructions. Boombox bikes
UK designer Giles Miller makes these laptop cases (and a number of furniture pieces) from recycled cardboard. I love the way he’s altered the corrugations to create designs in the cardboard. Corrugated Cardboard Laptop Case
We’re excited about our Make: MINImarketplace section, which premiered in MAKE, Volume 17. Got something cool you want to sell, have a service to offer fellow readers, looking for some precious widget that only another maker might have stashed away in the garage? The Make: MINImarketplace offers a place for you to reach the maker […]
For a long time, I’ve been using Fireworks for the sole task of creating 8-bit PNG images that will display alpha transparency correctly in all modern browsers, while degrading gracefully to a GIF-like binary transparency on older browsers. The process works well, but it’s sort of crazy to keep a second image editing application around […]
