Don’t forget, tomorrow night, Tuesday, March 15th, we’re having a town hall meeting at TechShop SF to discuss plans for this year’s Maker Faire Bay Area event (May 21 & 22, 2011). Join Dale, Sherry, Louise and other Maker Media folks, and fellow makers, as they discuss plans, seek new makers, ask for your feedback, […]
The finalists from The Martha Stewart Show “Simply Remarthable” contest were announced today on air – from thousands of entries these five finalists were selected, representing crafting and making talents in design, organic farming, sewing, needle felting, and cake decorating. You can learn more about each finalist here.
OpenROV (“ROV1”) is a shoebox-sized Arduino-controlled submarine device, with an onboard HD webcam, designed to operate in an unexplored underwater cave.
I had to do a double take when I saw this floral centerpiece. Can you believe that those blossoms are paper?!?! Blush & Bashful shows you how to do it.
Tote your Thinkpad and port your Apple in style with our custom TRON-inspired laptop bag tutorial. With a little soldering and sewing skills you can have your own light up satchel, sure to impress geeky friends. So grab your sewing needle and soldering iron and follow along
This project was a collaboration between ladyada & becky stern, rock!
http://www.ladyada.net/make/tronbag/
http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2010/12/el_wire_tron_bag.html
Chumby guts go together easily, but the b&w instructions included left me scratching my head the first time around. Here’s my second build, after I got all the parts right. http://www.makershed.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=MKCH1
I started getting interested in Blythe when I wanted to make a three-dimensional self portrait, and was dumbfounded by the enormous community of customizers working with the Blythe Doll. One of the main online sources for customization is Puchi Collective, which houses oodles of tops for changing her eyechips, face makeup, and clothes. I was mainly interested in rerooting her hair, as the doll I acquired from co-blogger Jenny Ryan had blonde hair, and I wanted to use my own wavy red hair from a recent haircut. I made this video to illustrate the process, based on text-and-image tutorials I found on Puchi and Flickr. View on craftzine: http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2009/01/rerooting_blythe_doll_hair_video.html
Music is Yellow Cactus by I, Cactus: http://www.8bitpeoples.com/artist/i_cactus
