Tomorrow is the last day we are accepting our Call for Makers applications for the 6th Annual Maker Faire Bay Area, May 21 and 22, 2011 at the San Mateo Event Center. Organized by the staff of MAKE magazine, Make: Online and CRAFT, Maker Faire is brings together science, art, craft, and engineering plus music […]
This week in the CRAFT Flickr pool, we saw: Work in progress, by kitschcafe, Front side of Bodice work-in-progress, by Urban Woodswalker, and textile bracelet crochet, by HandMaid Liset.
If you ever wanted to see a NES guitar in action, here’s your chance. The one-man band is called The Gizzards and he packs lots of circuit-bent goodness. [Via GetLoFi]
Friday afternoon, I was vising my friend Amon Millner at Olin College. After finishing up, he invited me to go with him to the nearby Wellesley College and the Engineering Studio. Not knowing quite what to expect, but always interested in seeing hands-on learning spaces, I went along for the ride. What I saw took my breath away and left me speechless. It is still a bit mind boggling to consider what this lab has, and the amazing ideas that have come from it.
Erica from P.S. I Made This… shows you how to make this encrusted headband and belt which will give some beautiful sparkle an outfit for a special occasion.
Instructables user JamesRPatrick created a self-cooling drink bucket. This version is designed to accept three 20oz bottles of soda or three 12oz cans. If you haven’t heard about evaporative coolers, they use warm water and evaporation to cool a medium in a way similar to the human perspiration system. Apparently they were used in ancient […]
Kudos to Mark Anderson, who made this incredible Lego spaceship alphabet: I was looking to create some Lego spaceships, but ran into a brick wall when it came to design. I mean what hasn’t been done to death already?! So, to kick start my creativity, I decided to do a scpaceship based on each latter […]
