Last Day to Apply to Detroit Craft Faire
Today is the last day to apply to Handmade Detroit’s Craft Faire at Maker Faire Detroit. Get those applications by 12 a.m. EST!
Continue ReadingMonth: May 2011
Thermite Experimenter’s Online Video Notebook
UCLA chemist Jeffrey Schwartz, whose traditional thermite demonstrations I very much enjoyed at BAMF last week, has compiled what, he quite plausibly claims, is the world’s largest online gallery of thermite reaction videos at his fascinating site Amazing Rust.com. By my count, Jeffrey has there documented, with pictures or video or both, more than 40 different aluminothermic thermite events, smelting eleven different metal oxides including vanadium, cobalt, and titanium.
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Maker Shed: Maker Faire Specials Ends at Midnight (PST)
Every purchase of $10 or more will get the new 2011 Learn To Solder merit badge pin with flashing LED. Purchase at least $75 and we’ll also throw in a Makers Notebook and a 60-page commemorative Maker Faire program; and when your order tops $130 you’ll get FREE Shipping.* Hurry, this offer ends at Midnight (PST) May 31st!
Continue ReadingHow-To: Chalkboard Cake Toy
By Jeromina Juan Kids and kids at heart will delight in decorating this calorie-free, three-tier, cake-shaped chalkboard. It’s both a craft and a toy, and that makes for a very sweet deal. What’s best: It’s a piece of cake to make! You can have your little ones join you in the fun process of crafting […]
Continue ReadingSally Cardigan KAL: The Button Placket + A Sally For Your Pet!
With the big bad steek behind you, all that’s left is the button placket, a piece of cake. Picking up the button placket is pretty straightforward (detailed instructions on the original pattern). You may notice that on the right side of the steek/left side of the sweater, some of the stitches you’re using for your […]
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School of the Visual Arts Seeks Unique Sysadmin
There are two positions available at SVA in NYC: a systems administrator in the MFA Interaction Design and Visible Futures lab, and another for managing servers and the woodshop. It’s a unique opportunity to work with talented students in a high-tech lab managing physical computing equipment and digital making machines like laser cutters and 3D […]
Continue ReadingHow-To: Grown-Up Version of the Sassy Pillowcase Dress
I doubt I’m alone in this crowd when I say my junior high and high school self was largely influenced by obsessively reading Sassy magazine. Indeed, as a 15-year-old, it was my life dream to move to New York with my best friend and fellow high school newspaper staffer, Misty, live in a loft apartment […]
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