Philadelphia area maker Jenn Hall improved the visual quality of her motorcycle helmet by turning it into a R2D2 helmet. The process included scuffing up the existing paint job and adding consecutive coats of spray paint and laboriously cut masking tape. The whole thing is finished off with some PVC tubing, some blinking lights, and plenty of clear coat. What a great way to liven up an otherwise mundane safety apparatus.
Maker Robert Baruch posted this fun little ditty on Google+, the “Maker’s Bill of Rights” in Latin, because everything sounds cooler in Latin.
We love Meg Allan Cole’s videos, and there are about to be more! She’s started a YouTube channel to house all her videos (including CRAFT episodes!), and has a brand new tutorial on making some sweet pleather fringe gauntlets.
I learned simple things like which way to hold the soldering iron and how to clean the tip before soldering — trivial to an experienced maker, but nerve-wracking to the newbie. As important as such subtle learning was, the big lesson didn’t hit me until the following day while I was showing a friend my MintyBoost: the journey from Zero to Maker was going to be primarily-project based. As much as I wanted to learn, I wouldn’t really absorb anything unless I had a project (or series of projects) to center that learning around.
Today we’ll show you how to make your own groovy lava lamp, no heat required! All you need are a few things you just might have in your kitchen.
Starting in 1995, Frank Kovac took ten years constructing amechanical globe planetarium of his own design despite having no prior engineering experience. The Kovac Planetarium in Monico Wisconsin is only the fourth of its kind ever built as well as being the largest in history at 4000 pounds and 22 feet in diameter.
Beer is awesome. Besides being deliciously inebriating, beer offers a wide range of crafting potential! The caps can be collected and turned into jewelry. The bottles can be recycled into vases, lamps and even glasses for drinking beer. The cardboard from the case even has infinite possibilities. Even the labels can be reused, say, to […]
