Our coverage of glass-cutting continues to inspire inventive upcycling makers to dream up ways of improving the cutting process through various rolly jigs. Here, Adrian (“awalleigh” on Flickr) was inspired by Ben Light’s rolling pin rig to create one out of skateboard parts. Awalleigh’s photostream More: Glass-cutting rig from rolling pins How-To: Cut a wine […]
Every other week, MAKE’s awesome interns tell about the projects they’re building in the Make: Labs, the trouble they’ve gotten into, and what they’ll make next. By Eric Chu, engineering intern Building the Geared Candleholder by Benjamin Cowden in MAKE Volume 21 is one of my proudest builds, but it was no walk in the […]
Congratulations to Emily from Kansas City, MO, Jennifer from Braceville, IL, and Bonney from Wilmot, NH for each winning a copy of the book, Felt Me a Smile by Toyoko Sugiwaka from our recent giveaway. Thanks to everyone who entered!
Craig Smith of the Firefly Workshop writes in: I had a $5 microwave cart from goodwill that ended up in my shop as a finishing table where I would paint, stain or varnish items on newspaper. It was bugging me that all the space underneath was unused, and my paints, stains and varnishes were in […]
This month, with our UpCraft theme in full swing, we’ve seen a lot of really clever ideas for refreshing the old while keeping the landfills light on materials that can be reused. I love Natalie Friedman’s crafty project from CRAFT Volume 09 on how to transform a detergent bottle destined for (at best) the recycling […]
Music software interfaces designed to look like actual hardware consoles are not an uncommon thing – in fact they’re more or less the norm these days. What’s uncommon is someone creating an actual hardware console modeled after one of those virtual drum machine/synth interfaces – but a motivated maker by the name of ssp did […]
One of our wonderful MAKE magazine illustrators, Tim Lillis, who does the Tricks of the Trade cartoon in each issue, did a video version. I really like it and hope we get to see more. Tricks of the Trade: episode 1 More: Indirect Collaboration talks to Lego Group rep
