Trumpeter Clark Terry talked about how he learned to listen and play music on a re-broadcast of the Billy Taylor Jazz program on NPR, which I caught a portion of in my car. Terry said that he and his friends built crystal radios to pick up music over the air. The radios were cheap and […]
Tech artist Aaron Ristau was one of my favorite makers at last year’s Austin Maker Faire. He does gorgeous work, fashioning the technological detritus around us into beautiful art objects. He’s recently done a serious of steampunk-inspired pieces, including these awesome glasses. He shared this new work with our pals over at the Steampunk Workshop. […]
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 […]
I am so digging all of the bot sculptures that Tinkerbots shares in the MAKE Flickr pool. This one is VICTRON aka Slim. Love the model airplane engine on the back. Tinkerbots More: Tinkerbots’ rayguns
I’m drooling over the inspirational silhouette post filled with tons of photos over at Apartment Therapy SF. So I decided to add a couple of crafty how-tos so you can create your own photo silhouettes to add to your home decor. On design*sponge, Stu and Janet at three potato four have a tutorial on making […]
.: oomlout :.: One Day Chair Challenge Result? Success.… The chair is complete. What started this morning as as an idea and progressed through computer drawings, and scale models has this afternoon materialized into an honest to goodness chair. The result is admittedly not a design classic, but what we have learned during its design […]
Full list! – Greener Gadgets 2009: THE WINNERS! It was a roller-coaster ride of a panel discussion at the Live Greener Gadgets Design Competition Judging at the close of Friday’s Greener Gadgets Conference in New York City. After a 10-minute overview of some of the notable entries by moderator Allan Chochinov from Core77, the judges–Jeff […]
