I love this button ring pillow from Laura of Bugs and Fishes by Lupin. Finding a cool ring pillow for your wedding can be challenging. We found that most were pretty stodgy and traditional, and not really our style. This kind of pillow is fun and cheerful and would be a great conversation piece at […]
Join us Wednesday evening for the fifth episode of Make: Live, our streaming show and tell! Make: Live 05 – Kinetic Contraptions Wednesday March 23rd, 9pm ET/6pm PT Watch at makezine.com/live or on UStream Please join us in the UStream chat or mark tweets with #makelive to interact live with the show. We also give […]
In the comments on yesterday’s piece about Bolt Depot’s poster of fasteners, a reader, JamesB, wrote: I would encourage budding young fabricators to also take a look at the bolt grade charts and get an inexpensive universal thread gauge. For found fasteners, the grade markings help differentiate metric from SAE, and the thread gauge helps […]
It’s that time again for the monthly Open MAKE/Young Makers program at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, CA. This monthโs theme is Metal and Wire. The Featured Makers will be interviewed by MAKE’s Dale Dougherty in the McBean Theater between 1-2pm. They’ll be talking about their work and process, and taking questions from the audience. […]
MAKEโs awesome interns tell about the projects theyโre building in the Make: Labs, the trouble theyโve gotten into, and what theyโll make next. By Nick Raymond, engineering intern Autodesk recently sent Make: Labs a copy of their latest software, Inventor Publisher 2011. Earlier in the week, I had been using their 3D mechanical design program, […]
Look at how many pins there are in this in-progress piece of lace, all so close together! Jesse Breytenbach of Cape Town, South Africa, took these photos at Cape Lace Guild’s exhibition, in 2009. Below left: A piece based on a cross-section of a plant stem. Below right: A piece that was described as “modern” […]
CasaSugar showcases a tutorial by Emily of Jones Design Company who created a beautiful Moroccan wall stencil for her bathroom.
