Dana of MADE shares a pattern and how-to for making pillow cases from your stash fabrics to donate to the ConKerr Cancer organization. ConKerr delivers brightly-colored pillow cases to chroniclly ill children in hospitals to help brighten their hospital rooms. The group has provided more than “240,000 pillowcases made by thousands of volunteers from across […]
Volunteers attend Maker Faire for free and many tell us it’s more fun than coming as purely a spectator. We need help not just during the weekend but for set up and tear down too, every little bit helps! World Maker Faire New York 2010 at The New York Hall of Science September 25 & […]
The latest from Denmark-based conceptual group N55: WALKING HOUSE is a modular dwelling system that enables persons to live a peaceful nomadic life, moving slowly through the landscape or cityscape with minimal impact on the environment. It collects energy from its surroundings using solar cells and small windmills. There is a system for collecting rain […]
Matt @ Make: Online found this calendar that marks the days by unraveling a knit with printing on it. The piece is by Patrick Frey. Even from the video it’s not quite clear how it operates: does a motor pull a certain amount of yarn down from the textile at the same time each day, […]
Robert Schneider modified a Mindflex EEG toy to become the Teletron, a theremin that plays a Moog analog synth via thought control. The second video shows how to do it. [Via Pitchfork, thanks Jeremy!]
Today is Labor Day in the U.S. which means we all get a day off from work. Since crafting is fun and most of us spend a lot more time making things for other people, I thought that today would be a great time for all of us to indulge in a little fashion crafting […]
Thing about folding tables is, the tops–which are commonly made of cheap particle board–tend to wear out much faster than the legs–which are usually made of steel. So the world is full of old folding tables with mutilated tops and perfectly serviceable legs. If you know where to look, good-looking hollow-core doors can be had for a song, and make for great replacement tabletops for those old folding legs if you know how to mount them correctly. Here’s how I did it, using XRS Molly bolts with expanding adhesive foam blown in for reinforcement.
