By Nikol Lohr With short sleeves and a wide neckline, this retro-inspired cropped summer jacket goes from sunshine to summer nights or chilly air-conditioned offices. Knit from the top down, with puffed sleeves and seed stitch edging, the seamless design means that there’s very little finishing, and it’s ready to wear as soon as it’s […]
Boris Smus, a student at Carnegie Mellon, built this elegantly simple robot that uses a smartphone to interpret commands from Twitter. A few projects around the internet use an Android phone to control the Lego Mindstorms NXT brick. Most involve an ugly hack in which the phone communicates with a computer over WiFi, and the […]
I’ve been collecting used books for making craft projects for ages. But I never knew I could make them into stone! These rocks made from the pulp of recycled books by Lisa Kokin are great. They look almost like real sedimentary stones.
Here’s a pretty awesome 3d display, that uses synchronized droplets of water to project a 3-layer image.
Give yourself a sewing challenge this summer! Right now this Women’s Tailored Jacket is a free pattern download from BurdaStyle. Not sure how long that will last so download it today! BurdaStyle writes: For today’s androgynous variation we adjusted the pocket flaps to be straight – not curved as the pattern piece indicates. We chose […]
Artist/maker/consultant Matt Borgatti just finished this set of amazing steampunk goggles, and was kind enough to answer a few interview questions for Make: Online. See what he had to say and check out loads more process photos after the jump. Tell us about your project. They’re digitally fabricated steampunk goggles. They took over a year […]
My knitting machine comes with some crazy two-color knitting patterns, which its capable of executing one row at a time by way of a magnetic encoder switch. It sounds complicated, but the operator (me) just has to push the carriage back and forth across the needle bed instead of laboring over each stitch. The pattern […]
