Recently we featured a lively point-counterpoint post featuring Dale Dougherty and Joel Johnson debating the merits of Chris Anderson’s Atoms are the New Bits article in Wired. Now the Thingiverse blog is weighing in with this thoughtful opinion piece by Allan Ecker titled Atoms are not the New Bits. Yet.. What do you think, readers?
The fine folks behind Maker Faire Africa have announced that their 2010 faire will take place in Nairobi, Kenya on August, 6th and 7th, 2010, and have put out a call for makers.
Even though St. Patrick’s Day is 2 weeks out, I’ve got green on my mind. This adorable elf hat by RagamuffinDesigns on etsy is an instant classic. And for all the work that goes into something handmade like this, the price is right.
The Woodworks Library has a bunch of PDFs of woodworking books, mostly public domain materials from the late 1800s or early 1900s. However, some of them are more modern, like this US Army Corps of Engineers carpentry manual from 1995. [via open materials] Update to Previous Warning: We posted a warning about possible PDF-based malware […]
Matt @ Make: Online found this gem in the MAKE Flickr pool: it’s a rhombidodecadodecahedron! Try saying that twelve times fast.
March is a time when spring is dawning and we (at least those of us in colder climates) can’t wait to bust out of our cabins and break the fever of breathing our own exhaust all winter long. Spring offers newfound possibilities for making things, for being creative. Combine the desire to get out and […]
Petit Main Sauvage has two great posts on creating your own shrug pattern and then turning the pattern into the final garment. There are great step-by-step photos and a nice amount of hand-holding. I love when accomplished sewers share some of the obvious-to-them but never-would-have-occurred-to-me details that are part of creating something from scratch.
