It’s a great honor for me to be able to use this Maker Birthdays forum to offer up an entry-day shout-out to one of my favorite living makers, Jeri Ellsworth. If ever there was someone for whom the fire for making appears to have been blazing since birth, it’s Jeri. She seems to live for […]
This is how I like my embroidery. It is an elaborate piece of pop culture art, has unfinished ends, and the message is potent. Every single piece of sewing RosieG does is just lovely. She celebrates typography by stitching famous quotes and creates very cool illustrations with thread.
Laura Cesari filled us in on the inspiration behind her solar system necklaces back in the spring (and my husband was kind enough to get one for me for Mother’s Day – I adore it!). Laura’s latest science-inspired necklace over in the Makers Market is this fantastic representation of atmospheric strata. Six shimmering glass beaded […]
Make a toolbox of loaner tools to share with family, friends, and members of your community.
Wondering what the secrets are behind circuit bending?
I’m pumped up from an inspiring day yesterday at The Conference of Creative Entrepreneurs! We heard talks from Faythe Levine and Cathie Filian, and I sat on panels about podcasting and teaching your craft. If you’re in Seattle, there’s no reason to miss out on the rest of the event! You can still sign up […]
You printed some fabjects with your 3D printer, now what? Ph.D student Jon Hiller and professor Hod Lipson of the Cornell Computational Synthesis Laboratory created this concept for an automated voxel factory. Imagine a desktop fabricator capable of making perfectly repeatable, arbitrary, multi material 3D objects with microscale precision. The objects would be composed of […]
