Check out this week’s highlights from the MAKE Flickr pool! My personal favorite comes from user maushammer, who photographed the scariest NFPA diamond I’ve ever seen at the Boulder Hazardous Materials Management Facility.
Here are some interesting things we saw in the CRAFT Flickr pool this week: Steampunk Watch with Mechanical Iris Cover, by gogglerman Fiore Bombato, by Francesco Guarnieri iPhone Case, by Hine Mizushima
Tim Goddard used Lego to masterfully recreate NASA’s Curiosity rover. Towards the end of 2011 NASA’s latest rover will be launched towards Mars. If all goes according to plan it will land in August 2012. This model is of the Curiosity rover as it will appear on the Martian surface; you can see the six […]
Vicky of Stasty created this amazing Rubik’s Cube battenburg cake in honor of the puzzle cube’s inventor, Ernล Rubik’s, birthday. What I love most about the cake is that it was constructed in such a way that each slice reveals a different color block pattern. Brilliant. See how it was constructed over on Stasty. [via […]
If you like having lots of bells and whistles attached to your computer, we’ve got you at least partially covered here. Using a microcontroller and a homemade solenoid inside a desk bell, Instructables user Meseta walks you through how to create a USB-based dinging notification system. The bell can be used to notify you of […]
The virtual presses are cranking to life over at Maker Faire Daily, as the carnival of Maker Faire Detroit does the same. Dale Dougherty and a few other contributors will be posting images, thoughts, and video snapshots throughout the week, as the Faire takes shape, and by next weekend, we’ll have an even larger pool of eyes, ears, and futurephones pressed into service at the Henry Ford Museum grounds.
Social media news web site Mashable has an interesting article on Etsy as a resource for musicians, whether it be for selling merchandise or raising money for charity. Are there any folks out there in bands using Etsy as a way to sell merch?
