If you’re looking for a bare-bones hovercraft build, this one from ENGINEERING.com’s Some Assembly Required is about as minimal as it gets: A leaf blower, a couple circles of plywood, a lawn chair, and a shower curtain for the skirt. [Thanks, Dad!]
I am in love with the bright, cheery feel of these citrus coasters from Molly at The Purl Bee. They make me want to drop everything and make a whole set for our summer table! Related: Vintage Craft Workshop Project Excerpt: Citrus Slice Bulletin Board
Becky Stern shows you how to embed a device to power down TVs in public places into a jacket, activated by a conductive thread zipper switch. More info: http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2011/06/tv-b-gone_jacket.html Music by i am jen.
The folks over at Teague labs have built a fun Arduino based generative music maker with a unique minimalist keyed user interface called Muze. Instead of directly manipulating instruments, you use a color coded knob to tune or influence multiple aspects of the score Muse plays at once. If you’d like to play along, you […]
If you’re in NYC this weekend don’t miss the 2011 Jell-O Mold Competition! Check out our video from last year. Help take Jell-O on a big adventure–out of the kitchen and into the world at large!–as a crack panel of judges including Allan Chochinov of Core77, Emily Elsen of Four & Twenty Blackbirds pie shop, […]
If you’re in NYC this weekend don’t miss the 2011 Jell-O Mold Competition! Check out our video from last year. Help take Jell-O on a big adventure—out of the kitchen and into the world at large!—as a crack panel of judges including Allan Chochinov of Core77, Emily Elsen of Four & Twenty Blackbirds pie shop, […]
Here at headquarters, we just wrapped up the newest issue of MAKE, Volume 27, the Robot issue. Look for it on newsstands on July 26th. While we were working on the issue, we were curious to see what kinds of bots our community members were making and thought it would be fun to host a little contest. The premise of the contest was simple: we were looking for bots with lots of character.
