Rebar X-mas tree
Spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool, from user gunterhausfrau.
Month: December 2010
Atomic Age tiki time on the model railroad
By way of Dinosaurs and Robots comes this awesome prototype of a soon-to-be HO-scale model kit of a 1960 tiki-fied SoCal bowling alley, cocktail lounge, and coffee shop. Swanky! The designer, Mike Cozart, also has plans for a department store, car dealership, movie house, and shopping center done in classic Atomic Age designs. Mike Cozart […]
Lotta Jansdotter on Decor and DIY Holiday Gifts
CasaSugar talks to Lotta Jansdotter and gets the skinny on easy holiday DIY gifts to her tips for creating a craft space in a small home.
Maker Pioneers: Limor Fried
Here is the third installment of our series of Make: Shorts covering “Maker Pioneers,” inventors, entrepreneurs, makers who are dreaming up clever solutions to today’s energy and environmental problems. In this video, we visit somebody MAKE readers are likely already familiar with, Limor Fried, aka Ladyada, from Adafruit Industries. Limor talks about Adafruit’s kit business […]
Engineer Guy explains the world’s first transistor
Unlike all the other men in my family (and most of my friends) I am not an electrical engineer by training. I’ve spent my life around electrical engineering, and although I’ve known about the historical details of the invention of the transistor since I was a wee lad, I can’t claim to have understood how the first transistor worked until I saw Bill Hammack’s video for this week. So, thanks for that, Bill, on a personal level.
Rudolph Celebrates Hanukkah
Do you celebrate Christmas and Hanukkah? Check out illustrator Phil Scrogg’s lino print featuring this well-known holiday icon himself and send a double helping of holiday wishes.
MakeDo, a construction set with just the connectors
MakeDo gives you the tools to attach stuff together — and you supply the stuff. They’re Australian but ship free worldwide. [Via Dornob]
