Cartoonist and longtime MAKE contributor Roy Doty has a comic strip in MAKE, called Eureka! Check out the most recent one, from MAKE Volume 26: A hack of a greeting card that plays music. Don’t have this fabulous issue? – Buy the print magazine – Buy the magazine in PDF – Become a MAKE subscriber!
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Jason Gessner learned how to weld at Milwaukee Makerspace, and his first project were giant jacks made from bolts. He ended up using the jacks in an event in Milwaukee were teams of people ran around the city doing activities. The game only took a couple of minutes when done correctly, but some teams were […]
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Julie @ Etsy writes: If plastic soda bottles are piling up in your recycling bin, perhaps it’s time to make your own seltzer maker! With a little tinkering and the right components, you can build a contraption to dispense the bubbly stuff with the help of painter and seltzer enthusiast Randy Stoltzfus.
Continue ReadingThere may not appear to be anything unusual about this pair of socks and this sweater made by Jenny Willknitt, but it’s what you don’t see that makes them unique. “Podophilia” [are] socks infused with pheromones to empower women to feel more confident about their feet by making them the object of male fascination… But […]
Continue ReadingI’ve seen plenty of tutorials for adorable felt baked goods, and this pattern from sweetiepiebakery on Burda Style now gives you a place to display them all! [via Sweet Tidings]
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Did you know that you can develop your own black and white film with instant coffee, vitamin C, and washing soda? In this how-to, Matt Richardson walks you through making and using your own developer, which has come to be known as “caffenol.”
For more information, check out: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/07/skill-builder-caffenol-homebrew-film-developer.html
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Having good documentation really helps out when you’re assembling or repairing something of significant complexity. Now that access to a smartphone or tablet is becoming more commonplace we’re starting to see better documentation tools hit the market. Take for instance the newly released Autodesk Inventor Publisher Viewer for Android. Business looking to publish interactive 3D […]
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