Following on the heels of our Working with ABS piece, here’s a Make: Project that furthers your working with ABS (assembling via rivets) and includes use of translucent polycarbonate sheeting to create a cool dodecahedron lamp.
Regardless whether it’s an email exchange, Skype call, or an in-person meeting, I always make sure to ask them for one piece of advice they would give a wannabe maker. More often than not, the response is some derivative of: just get started. Make that first mistake, pick up that tool, or go out and get your hands dirty. I agree with all of that, but I want to offer another piece of advice: start drawing.
Needle felting is a medium that is often seen as only practical for making small objects. I love seeing fiber artists who tackle large-scale projects. This fox mask that I discovered in the CRAFT Flickr pool, by Laura Lee Burch is a wonderful example of useful, ambitious needle felting. I also think it would be […]
Hooray! MAKE just hit the quarter-million subscriber mark on YouTube. Born in 2005, the MAKE YouTube channel is the definitive DIY channel showcasing projects and tutorials from the best how-to producers. We publish several videos per week to satisfy your appetite for macro-lens making, from Collin’s circuit skills to the gadgets of Sylvia’s dreams.
Lindsay at Delighted Momma is loving turquoise jewelry these days, but after visiting a turquoise jewelry shop with prices running in the hundreds, she decided to make her own turquoise-inspired jewels. Using blue and green polymer clay along with black acrylic paint, Lindsay shows us how she did it.
Memory Cloud: Detroit is a project developed for the Detroit Institute of Arts by the experimental architecture and design studio Minimaforms.
Hoosier Handmade is celebrating Cupcake Tuesday today as well as Food-On-a-Stick Week. With all these possible dinners they’ve been sharing on Pocket Change Gourmet, you need some dessert, right? That’s where these candy corn cupcakes, on a stick of course, come in.
