Match-heads
David Mach, whose coathanger gorilla we hit on Friday, also makes these pretty amazing sculptures from matches with the heads arranged to colorize the surface. Just, you know, keep away from open flame. [via Dude Craft]
Month: June 2010
TaDaa! Studio at Mini Maker Faire Ann Arbor
Last weekend I had the chance to check out Ann Arbor’s (that’s in MIchigan, of course!) MIni Maker Faire. I loved all of the great exhibitors who showed up, but my favorite had to be TaDaa! Studio. Anyone who loves oil cloth as much as I do has got be good, right? The gals from […]
Turn an old router into a repeater
I love it when the internet seems to magically anticipate your needs and provides the info you desire. Such was the case today when, just last night, I thought I needed to finally break down and figure out how to seriously boost the wi-fi range in our house (which is too unreliable on the other […]
Cardboard mechanics
Cardboard Mechanics is an installation by Saskia Freeke, Fin Kingma, Davy Jacobs, and Sonja van Vuurem, who are studying at the Utrecht School of Art and Technology
Building an open source home DNA copy machine
Tito Jankowski and Josh Perfetto were at Maker Faire, showing off their prototype for an OpenPCR machine. A wha? PCR stands for Polymerase Chain Reaction. It is a method that can be used for replicating DNA. It can take a small amount of DNA (even a single molecule), and amplify (copy) a specific region exponentially, […]
Father’s Day is Make: Day at the Science Museum of Minnesota
This Sunday I’ll be attending Make: Day, a miniature version of a Maker Faire held in the Twin Cities’ fabulous science museum. This is the second event in what hopefully will be a long series. Last year’s Make: Day was held in part to promote the wonderful maker TV show Make: Television and was organized […]
How-To: Sew a Sparkle Tutu
Forget wedding cake and champagne toasts and soup cans tied to the back of your car. Of all the classic wedding traditions, adorable flower girl ballerinas are the most essential. And they need pink sparkle tutus. Handmade pink fluffy ruffled sparkle tutus with giant satin bows. Pick the best shade of pink. Cut a million […]
