(Photo: Elle.com) Last night’s Oscars was sort of a snooze fest but I couldn’t take my eyes off Oscar winner Natalie Portman’s purple tassel earrings both on the red carpet and during her acceptance speech. It reminded me of Leah Peterson’s tutorial here on CRAFT for DIY tassel earrings. These stylish earrings are really simple […]
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The latest Make It Last Build Series Dispatch, #6, went out today. It includes the last build instructions for this project. It covers understanding the parameters that you’ll need to consider in your machine (e.g. diameter of the spools you used and the size of your draw area), how to set up and calibrate your […]
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Big news in the world of Open Source Hardware! Two Open Source Hardware makers were featured on Entrepreneur.com! These are well known innovators in the maker community, Bre Pettis and Limor Fried. It’s fantastic to see OSHW folks getting the spotlight, not only because they make great stuff but they’re also doing great business. I’d […]
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The Maker Shed is giving away an iPad loaded with Make: The Complete Collection (PDF). It’s super-easy to enter, and no purchase is necessary. Read all the details about how to enter on the Maker Shed’s contest page.
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By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics Anabeth Dollind made this assortment of quilted balls, based on tilings of the sphere. These first two are spherical versions of Platonic solids: the dodecahedron and icosahedron, with twelve pentagons and twenty triangles, respectively. Next are a spherical version of the icosidodecahedron, which has twelve pentagons and […]
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Continue ReadingSo you have a small business. You have stuff to market, and you’re marketing it on your blog, Twitter, and Facebook. (Or, some combination of those three.) How often can you get away with mentioning your products before you start looking too spammy and annoying your readers?
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