Lee of Leethal recently got married, and it’s been so fun to watch her show off the different hand made touches she and Pete created for their wedding. In her latest wedding recap post, she shares how she made 60 different stenciled picture frames in which they displayed lyrics from their favorite songs on the […]
Why buy a center-pull yarn ball winder when you can make your own? It may not be the most glamorous-looking contraption, but using tools you made yourself is distinctly satisfying.
A guest post – Solving a problem with Open Source Hardware by David Carrier (Parallax)… I recently listened to a Freakonomics podcast that talked about using contests to promote innovation, in this case the efforts of the X Prize foundation. If you listen to the podcast, at 18:15 they mention the significant effort that people […]
Born in Brooklyn on this date in 1934, galactic citizen Carl Sagan—scientist, educator, advocate, author, artist, interstellar diplomat—passed away in 1996. Today he would have been 76.
Last month, I posted about fellow Austinite Allison of Crafty is Cool and her awesome crocheted Team Coco Blimp. She sent the blimp to Conan and last week he posted this rad picture of himself with it. Fun! I was excited to watch his first show on TBS last night, and hoped the crochet blimp […]
The Gakken SX-150 has always been a really popular kit in the Maker Shed. We have posted a lot of projects that involve hacking and modifying of the SX-150. We’ve see Arduino controlled versions, fooling around with plasma, incredible analog cassette hacks, button mods, and more! Collin did a really nice video review too! Did you hack and mod your SX-150? Are you planning on it? Let us know in the comments. Thanks!
Adam Wolf of Wayne and Layne built this Van De Graaff generator out of a cheap hobbyist motor, a rubber band, some Shape Lock, a pop can, a toothpick, and other el-cheapo components. I built this in one afternoon at my parent’s place in Wisconsin–in a town that lacks good hardware stores. While building it, […]
