Maker Faire New York is just a few days away. With any Maker Faire, you can bet all of the makers are either en route, making finishing touches to their work, or just getting excited. Today, Thursday, and Friday, you’ll meet your Bust Craftacular vendors right here on Craft with a link to check out […]
One of the things that makes each Maker Faire so incredible is the wide variety of makers presenting. Creative folks are out there making things you may have never thought about, and they are each so passionate about what they make. We’re merely two days away from the beginning of our second Maker Faire New […]
Jacinda of Prudent Baby was inspired by a bowl her mother made more than 25 years ago and decided to make this classic fabric scraps project for herself. Using scrap pieces of fabric and heavy cording, she shares how to construct a handy decorative bowl.
A weekly roundup of craft fairs and a cal for vendors.
Meet Ryan Doyle, the co-creator of Gon KiRin, a 69′ fire-breathing dragon. Ryan learned to create in many mediums while working in his grandmother’s doll hospital, and took his recycled art-car-dragon to Detroit to finish it amid the artifacts of American auto manufacturing.
Cool vid from our pals at TAP Plastics showing how to build a strip heater, which is commonly referred to as a “plastic bender,” but really doesn’t do any bending in and of itself: It’s just a long skinny heating element that makes it easy to soften a sheet of plastic along a straight line, so you can bend it with your hands to an arbitrary angle, and/or against a jig for more precise control of the bend.
Ayah Bdeir is the co-chair with Alicia Gibb of the Open Hardware Summit. Held in advance of World Maker Faire, the summit is a one-day event at the New York Hall of Science on Thursday, September 15th. The conference will be live-streamed here, and you can join the twitter conversation at #openhardware throughout the summit.
