Maker Faire Detroit Detroit DIY Stage Schedule
Feel like putting your crafty thinking cap on? Join us on the DIY Stage, located in the Automotive Hall of Fame, this weekend at Maker Faire Detroit. We’ll have presentations every half hour.
Month: July 2010
MacGyver Mending: In the desert, try agave
Jonathan Johns, a coworker of ours over at O’Reilly Media and a frequent volunteer at Maker events, sent us a great little maker story that we think everyone will enjoy. My son, Christian, and his two roommates were on spring break in Arizona. As they were climbing up and around the hills, Christian’s cargo shorts […]
Water + Alka Seltzer in zero gravity
From a series of videotaped experiments by astronaut Don Pettit performed about the ISS in 2003.
Congrats to the Art of Preserving winners!
Congratulations to Summer of London, Ontario, Gloria of Norwalk, Calif., and Kristin of Ames, Iowa, who each won a copy of The Art of Preserving. Enjoy the book and let us know your favorite recipes!
Knitting 101: Basic Stitches
Vickie Howell knows knitting. Check out the complete Knitting 101: Basic Stitches tutorial, including a special six-part introduction to knitting in this week’s CRAFT Video. In the video above, learn the basic knit and purl stitches in the Continental style of knitting. Subscribe to the CRAFT Podcast in iTunes, download the first m4v video directly, […]
Nick Britsky on i3 Detroit at Maker Faire
Nick Britsky of i3 Detroit has a piece on Detroit Blog/Time.com about some of the awesome things he and his fellow i3ers are showing off at this weekend’s Maker Faire Detroit. You had me at Twinkie Cannon: Beer Growler Pneumatic Organ: Recycling is the way to go with our Beer Growler Pneumatic Organ. This set […]
MakeShift 22 deadline Aug. 27
There’s about one month left to submit a solution for the MakeShift featured in MAKE Volume 22. Here is the challenge: The Scenario: You’re an avid and experienced snowmobiler off to meet up with a friend at a remote cabin some 60 miles back in a rocky and forested wilderness. You know the terrain can […]
