If you liked Jeromina Juan’s No Carve Stamps how-to earlier this month, you’ll also want to visit her blog to learn how to use ordinary caulk and wooden dowels to make these cute and sturdy ice cream charms. Who knew caulk had so many crafty possibilities?
I first wrote about Denver puzzlemaker Kagen Schaeferโs gorgeous purpleheart butcherblock benchtop two years ago, and now Kagenโs knocked me out again with this nigh-unbelievable desk. It features eight working wooden organ pipes that play notes when when you push in the various drawers, and also a pneumatic computer that records the sequence of notes and, when the right melody is played, opens a secret compartment. The pneumatic lock can be reprogrammed to recognize any melody. Holy smokes.
We’re talking about robots on Make: Live’s episode 12! Let us know your favorite robot in the comments below! Go to https://makezine.com/live to watch the show live on Wednesday, July 13th at 9pm ET/6pm PT.
Nick Sayers enjoys making geometric constructions from unusual materials. Here’s an organic-looking sculpture he made from 630 coffee stirrers, with “blobs” protruding in the twelve directions of a dodecahedron’s faces.
1, 2, 3, Sew: Build Your Skills with 33 Simple Projects, by Ellen Luckett Baker Book Site: The Long Thread When you’re new to sewing, many projects can seem intimidating – and yet it’s much more fun to make something beautiful and usable than it is to practice seams on scrap fabric. 1, 2, 3 […]
Interested in taking your camera off its automatic setting and seeing what else it can do? Check out this beautiful infographic from Miguel of Living in the Stills. What a great introduction to the basics of shutter speed and exposure!
Join us Wednesday evening for the next episode of Make: Live, our streaming show and tell! Episode 12 is all about DIY robots to celebrate the upcoming release of MAKE Volume 27. Robot hobbyist Andrew Terranova will show off some of his own homemade ‘bots and will be answering your robotics questions. Tim Laursen will […]
