From the MAKE Flickr pool Karl W. shares a pic of his newly acquired artifact – This ceramic wafer is a real mystery to me. I purchased it from a Ebay seller in Kfar Saba, Israel and during the shipment it cracked on the upper edge of it. It’s about 4″ x 4″ and just […]
I love this bird-feeder tutorial from Instructables user me13lake. It’s not flashy (indeed, with a title like “Small simple horizontally mounted squirrel resistant/proof bird feeder that requires no specialist tools to make,” I’m guessing it was written by a scientist or engineer) but it’s well thought-out, easy and inexpensive to make, and it looks like it would work very well. The clear squirrel-guard rotates freely so they can’t get a grip, and can be made from a 2-liter plastic bottle. Or you could try cutting one from a glass bottle.
Chris Anderson is on a mission… In the Next Industrial Revolution, Atoms Are the New Bits @ Wired. This is it folks! Open source, custom-fabricated, DIY product design – it’s now the lead story in Wired! A garage renaissance is spilling over into such phenomena as the booming Maker Faires and local “hackerspaces.” Peer production, […]
When I saw this lot of 150 felt beads for just $12, by woollyfabulous on etsy, my jaw dropped. I can think of a million things to make with these beauties. The possibilities are endless- necklaces, buttons, bracelets. I even want to set them out in a bowl on the coffee table to admire as […]
Nick Santillan wrote in to share his collapsible wooden 3-axis CNC machine. He decided to make the machine portable because he didn’t have a permanent space to use, and needed to be able to move it easily.
Inspired by the most useless machine, Karel decided to make a clone using LEGO and some switches.
Congrats to our very own guest author, Diana Eng, for her profile in World Radio magazine. As one of the stars of the second season of the wildly popular Bravo television reality series Project Runway, she’s as comfortable designing high tech clothing and accessories as she is handling a Yaesu FT-857d and an end-fed half […]
