Informal craftsmen, known as jua kali in Kenya, make their livelihoods by manufacturing products in the resource-constrained environment Westerners struggle so hard to adapt to. Their businesses thrive due to the complex networks among traders and producers.
MAKE contributor and television host John Park is quite the cocktail connoisseur, so I was thrilled to see pictures of his homemade cocktail cherries inspired by our latest CRAFT video. He scrubbed through the video on his iPad, perfect for recipes in the kitchen. John told me he plans to fork the recipe and try […]
One of our most-trafficked original tutorials over the past couple of years has been this simple trick for etching designs on glass bottles by using the label itself as a stencil. It’s a quick, satisfying, inexpensive project that yields long-lasting results with common equipment. In the process of porting the original blog post to our new Make: Projects platform, I took the opportunity to revisit the idea, updating the old images and adding a couple of helpful details, all of which was refreshingly easy using the new interface. Check it out.
Darrel Anderson of Bon Accord, AB, merged a couple of unused bikes into a cargo bike — except instead of a cargo platform, he has included two child car seats so he can bring the kids along. The bike is amazingly stable. I took a guess and made the rear steering arm a bit longer […]
This tutorial from Prudent Baby for making a nap mat is highly detailed and includes some great tips for adding bias tape and managing a sewing project that gets bulky at times. The mat includes a fleece blanket and pillow, and rolls up for easy transportation. It’s a great back-to-school project for preschoolers, and a […]
Seriously, I’ve spent more on dirt for our backyard garden than you’d end up paying for this tablet from Allgo Systems. Technology demonstrations, such as in the accompanying video, lower barriers of entry and expose new possibilities that normally wouldn’t exist. For a few dollars more than the leading name brand microcontroller board you could have a complete system with I/O, display, storage, etc. I know it’s like comparing apples to oranges, but it does get you wondering. What sort of projects would you build with access to cut-rate tablet hardware like this?
Awesome video from YouTuber leehound:
Cutting a face using my 15 year old Milltronics CNC Milling machine. Was a great machine that I sold recently. The programming for the face was done with Mastercam V9.
[Thanks, Dustin!]
