I am an Industrial Designer living in Southfield where I share my life with two beautiful children. I’m not originally from Michigan. I moved here after graduating from Pratt in 1990 to work as an Industrial Designer in the automotive industry. For my first job, I interned at Ford, in the “Color and Trim” department, […]
Michigan machinist GarE Maxton makes many different types of interlocking solid puzzles of this type, but this one, which is he calls Intimidator, is his masterpiece. Starting the disassembly process requires a special key. Once diassembled, about 20 of the pieces can be recombined to make a functioning single-shot pistol. Other parts of the puzzle separately and securely store “a customized set of tools, all necessary hardware, 45 caliber bullets, a standard sight, a laser sight, a cannister containing black powder pellets, a secure storage area for 209 shotgun primers, a spent primer removal tool and a ramrod for loading the bullets.”
By Katie Goodman Last week Natalie, CRAFT’s Editor-in-Chief, was telling me that she feels like she always just ends up steaming broccoli or green beans to go as a vegetable side with her meal. “Is there an interesting way to spruce up veggies or whatnot as a side dish?” I thought this would be a […]
Thingiverse user sideburn designed and printed these legendary video game ships. Thought: stick some magnets on the back and have an awesome fridge display!
Cook Clean Craft has a quicker solution on how to turn men’s jeans or pants into toddler-sized jeans. [via jean repair] Cook Clean Craft writes: I’ve seen a few blog posts for converting men’s pants or jeans to toddler-sized jeans, but they all seem to involve a lot of seam-ripping, deconstructing and lots of sewing. […]
The two images above are my extensions for Firefox and now Safari (which supports extensions + a gallery as of today). I haven’t looked at the browser share for MAKE recently but from what I recall it was a little over 50% Firefox – which browsers are you using, why and what extensions do you […]
Spotted in the MAKE Flickr Pool, this 3D printed set of chassis components from user nathanmatsuda:
So far I’ve made end panels for the duemilanove and the ethernet shield. Next up- a new top piece that’ll have an opening for the prototyping shield. Also planning a top piece for the touch shield (but I don’t have one of those yet).
The parts are available through Shapeways.
