As we mentioned on Friday, we’re moving the MAKE and CRAFT sites this weekend and switching to different blogging and commenting software. Comments are now turned off until the change-over is complete, sometime early Monday morning. Our service droids are working tirelessly around the clock — oh, wait, service droids won’t be available for another […]
This hobby rocketeer made a very simple camera mount and payload bay for this el cheapo Aiptek digital camera. Using an adjustable hole cutter tool, some plywood, Bondo, polycarbonate tubing, and some hardware, he built a simple but effective camera bay. Here’s a video from the rocket’s POV. Going Aiptek More: How-To: Make your own […]
Having enjoyed a day with a whole extra hour here in Detroit (!), I enjoyed this post from Alphamom showing off some family-friendly projects all based on time, clocks, etc.
The latest project from Whit’s Knits over on the Purl Bee is this cute pair of candy cane socks. Inspired by the timeless design of the candy cane, I decided to apply its emblematic stripes to a cozy pair of kick-around-the-house socks. The simple Spiral Rib pattern carries the stripes around the socks and the […]
By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics If you love geometry, you can let everyone know by wearing dodecahedra with elegance and style! These dresses with sewn-on paper polyhedra embellishments were designed by Amila Hrustic. I’m not sure how one sits in a dress textured with tetrahedra, but it certainly gets points for fashion. […]
This week in the CRAFT Flickr pool we saw: Nightmare Before Xmas by Gina Lee, To the Moon by Rose McCracken, and Kunsthรฅndverk 2010 by Norwegian Crafts.
Wayne and Layne, the shingle put up by Adam Wolf and Matthew Beckler, has opened up an online store. If you haven’t heard of the guys, they are rising stars in the DIY community with two excellent projects released so far. Their Tactile Metronome Kit and Video Game Shield Kit were hits at the Bay […]
