From Flickr user rsummer’s Maelstrom – Cavalcade photoset In response to our Maker Hobbies theme, we got an email from Martin Raynsford. He writes: My hobby is Live action role play (LARPing). It’s a bit like medieval re-enactment where the outcome of the battle isn’t already decided, and a bit like a real-life Lord of […]
Yesterday, a very interesting conversation was sparked by this post about Sew, Mama, Sew!’s awesome Handmade Holidays series. Ivoryh1632 left the following comment on the post: I love giving handmade gifts, I have more fun making them than I would have had shopping and I can make sure that the person gets something that fits […]
I LOLed today when I saw Chancery8’s solution to keeping track of individual winter accessories: attach them all together. Learn to make your own combination hat, scarf, fingerless gloves, and mittens accessory. More: Knitted Interfaces for Technology New Body-Technology Interfaces How-To: Touch Screen Gloves
As a petite lady, I’ve always been absolutely petrified of a common, versatile, but big and dangerous woodshop tool called the radial arm saw. My art school woodshop had one of these monsters, and the shock-and-awe-type safety demonstrations from our burly shop manager had me nervous around the thing even when it was off, and […]
Weigh your hive! Trerick writes: There is currently a NASA-sponsored nation-wide research project that asks volunteer beekeepers to take daily weight measurements of their bee hives. The data is used to estimate when nectar flows begin in order to answer how changing climate effects honey bees. The goal is to build an accurate, electronic bee […]
This tutorial from Maya of Maya*Made is a quick and easy project that would be great for gifts or just whipping up a special (and practical) little accessory for yourself. She shows how to transform sleeves from an old sweater into beautifully pleated wrist warmers.
Chinese artist Ai WeiWei envisioned the porcelain sunflower seed installation in the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern in London, and worked with craftspeople of Jingdezhen to create over 100 million of the little things. Garth at Extreme Craft has a bit to say about the installation, having visited the ceramicists of Jingdezhen before: Each […]
