The 5th annual Maker Faire Bay Area is fast approaching! If you don’t already have your Maker Faire tickets or you want another one for your best friend, brother, uncle, kid, mother, or long-lost cousin you recently saw at Burning Man, then here’s your chance to win a FREE ticket to Maker Faire Bay Area! […]
Today is the debut of Anna Maria Horner’s new book, Handmade Beginnings: 24 Sewing Projects to Welcome Baby. In a craft profile last year, Anna mentioned to us this new book and we are so excited to be the first stop in the blog tour! This baby book is for sewers of all levels. I […]
Today’s the last day to enter our Crafty Chica Challenge: Garden Glam Contest! Show us your crafty garden projects. Signs, planting labels, artful luminarias, decorated planters, lanterns and light strings – anything you create to spice up your backyard and garden space! There will be one grand prize winner, and three runners-up, selected by Kathy […]
Make: Online reader Richard Kline (Dayton, OH) wrote in to remind us of this excellent ham radio convention: I thought I would send a heads-up in case nobody else had about Hamvention 2010, a huge electronics and ham radio convention in Dayton Ohio, which takes place in about two weeks (May 14, 15, and 16th). […]
As our Make Space for Crafting series so clearly shows, a well-organized work space is inspirational and motivating, albeit perhaps tomorrow’s ambition. But for those times when your craft nook is tidy, it can be easy to forget what you’ve packed away so neatly in the drawers. Haylie B. Waring shares this wonderful DIY on […]
I’ve been hiring Angus Hines of Carrolton, VA, for a couple of months now for all my contract laser-cutting, and I can’t say enough good things about him. But, heck, I’ve never met him, so let’s focus on the empirical: Angus consistently quotes me about half what the big-laser cutters want to charge on the same jobs. (Hopefully he knows that, and I haven’t just shot myself in the foot by pointing it out.) Seriously, Angus himself says, “one of my goals is to help bring the price of DIY tech down to a more reasonable level.”
Now Angus is offering a kit of all the acrylic parts for the open-source Fab@Home Model 2 3D printer at about 75% of what the Fab@Home preferred vendors are charging. [Thanks, Angus!]
Wie-Chieh Shih made this somewhat intimidating laser jacket using 200 laser diodes.
