How ink is made
How ink is made! A Chief Ink Maker shows how colour and ink is created from the raw ingredients–powder, varnish, and passion. Everything designers and printers need to know about the process, the challenges and joy of ink making.
Month: October 2010
DIY bookscanner forums
MAKE subscriber Michael Zenner wrote in to tell us about the DIY Book Scanner community forums.
Inside the San Francisco Fire Department’s wooden ladder shop
San Francisco, as many of our regular readers will know from experience, is hilly, and can be windy. It has many narrow, winding roads and lots of low-hanging power lines. Which is why the SFFD is the only major US fire department still using wooden ladders–they don’t conduct electricity, and won’t fault a power line to ground in the event of an accident. The SFFD ladder shop made its first wooden ladder in 1917, and they’re still crankin’ em out today, using Douglas Fir timbers that are first aged 15 years in the shop itself. Very cool maker story and an excellently produced video from Adam Kaplan of ASK Media Productions. [via Gizmodo]
Making fire with Ikea products
If you’re ever stuck in an Ikea store during a zombocalypse, now you know how you can start a fire. [Via Ikeahacker]
Halloween O’Clock: Ghoul Chair from Ghostbusters
It’s October 1st, so we have 30 days to get our costumes and homes ready for my favorite holiday Halloween! In today’s CRAFT Video we were inspired by the classic movie Ghostbusters and took an upholstered chair and transformed it into one that was over-taken by the ghoul, Zuul. Scary stuff, plus a fun photo […]
Thomas Kalil, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, talks Maker Movement
On today’s O’Reilly Radar, Dale Dougherty has posted the full text of the talk Thomas Kalil delivered at a workshop entitled “Innovation, Education, and the Maker Movement,” held (at the NY Hall of Science) immediately following World Maker Faire. This speech is quite amazing, coming as it does from the Deputy Director of Policy of […]
Truck-Inspired Diamond Plate Tote
I loved this truck-inspired tote from Julie Hyde-Edwards’ Modern Made offering at the DIY Street Fair in Ferndale. No stranger to the auto industry, Julie took her inspriation right from the industrial materials we see on cars and trucks every day. What kind of everyday items inspire your crafting?