As soon as I saw these neon felt bows from bugs and fishes, I knew *exactly* what she was going for. As a fellow child of the 80s, I was instantly transported to my third grade self and could almost feel the neon pink Jellies on my feet. Her felt recreations of the 80s fashion […]
This week we announced a lot of new bundles available in the Maker Shed. My personal favorite is the Welcome to MAKE bundle. It’s a great way to get started with MAKE Magazine. The bundle includes a (1) year subscription to MAKE magazine, a copy of The Best of MAKE and your own Maker’s Notebook. […]
Randy Sarafan made a guide on Instructrables featuring loads of soft circuit and wearable electronic project how-tos. Featured over and over (and over again) is Hannah Perner-Wilson aka Plusea, who has been on a role churning out the coolest projects and best tutorials on the subject for the last year. In the Maker Shed: Lilypad […]
This week we had so much fun launching March Mending Month. I found myself learning a lot too from my fellow editors. In case you missed any of it, here’s a roundup of all the mending posts this week: Becky Stern shows you how to mend your quilt when pieces are torn. Jenny Ryan spruces […]
A few weekends ago I had the chance to check out the Northeast regionals for USFIRST in Boston. Above, Matt and Chris of Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational Technical High School, Team 61 tell about being involved. Here is a segment of one round of the competition: Norwell High School has a great robotics program mentored […]
Attendees at the last Make:NYC meet-up created and tested a whole fleet of mini sailboats from just cardboard, cups, and glue. They churned out a wide variety of designs each with it’s own approach to harnessing a breeze. Check out a bunch of good pics from the event in the Flickr set.
Instructables user mariosk8s writes: After having to drill a bunch of circuit boards, i came to the conclusions that there had to be a better way to perform target practice. So i ordered a laser pointer and dug out an old broken set of helping hands. The helping hands were really helping this time. Drill […]
