This month, we’re covering all aspects of craft organization with our Make Space For Crafting series. Last fall, I finally purchased several coordinating oraganizational boxes and bins to use in my office. True to what I’d always heard, having my storage boxes coordinate made a huge difference in the look and feel of my office. […]
Giant burr puzzles By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics For the Math Midway exhibition, The Math Museum created a set of large geometric puzzles. The one seen here is a traditional six-piece burr puzzle in which the six notched pieces of wood interlock in a clever way. When assembled, there are two pieces […]
Ricardo Nascimento and Jader Scalzaretto developed this pair of performative interactive capes that control sounds based on the embedded sensors. [via Fashioning Technology]
Design*Sponge posted about the Oragami Club Web Site this morning, and I found myself being instantly sucked into their massive collection of origami tutorials. The variety of projects and skill level is astounding, and they even have animations to guide you through each fold. I’m also charmed by the names of some of their projects, […]
Our Director of Retail Marketing, Heather Harmon Cochran, sent around a lovely customer email to our internal mailing list in praise of the new Make: Electronics book, including images of this awesome light-up, huggable Dalek. Gareth has the full story on Make: Online.
From the MAKE Flickr pool Sean built a digital weather display with a very analog feel - I took an old clock, removed the mechanism and replaced it with an Arduino (micro-controller) that checks the weather on the Environment Canada website every fifteen minutes and update the hands accordingly. It also has a web server […]
Elizabeth of Oh, Fransson has just announced a Paintbox Quilt ALong on her web site, where she’ll lead participants through making 80, 6 X 6 inch blocks to create a roughly 62-inch by 77-inch quilt. She’s listed the supplies and has posted how to make classic and scrappy blocks, as well as a post with […]
