This is the fifth installment of my series on building the MakerGear Mosaic 3D printer. This part covers installation of the “business end” of the machine, i.e. the extruder assembly, which consists of the preassembled motor and filament drive / hot-end groups, and the cooling fan. The fan and heater power leads, and the temperature sensor lead, are also connected at this stage.
Weekend Projects reader R. Lee writes in with his perfboard version of the Luna Mod Looper, one of many mods now out there in the wild. Not that I don’t appreciate the carpentry in Brian McNamara’s original project, but personally, this “all-guts-exposed” approach is my favorite style of making.
We’ve all seen a cute dress pattern, fallen in love with the flattering cut, and then thought, “I’d wear that all the time—if it were a skirt.” Once again, Caitlin at The Coletterie comes to the rescue with a new tutorial for modifying a dress pattern to make only a skirt. I love the ladies […]
As a book-loving maker family, we try to find books that will prime our two boys, ages 2 and 4, to have the curiosity, whimsy, creativity, resourcefulness, flexibility of thinking, environmental understanding, and mechanical sense to contribute to the family-wide maker projects we’ve already started to do together. But discovering compelling books that can do this can be challenging.
Martha Stewart does it again and makes the cutest little mushroom toadstool!
I wrote just last week about British electronics hobbyist Rupert Hirst’s method and homemade tools for bending his own aluminum project enclosures. This artfully-soldered PCB-free headphone jack amplifier is his latest project, and it only serves to reaffirm my impression of Rupert as a man with a refined sense of the aesthetics of DIY electronics. To top it off, he knows how to take a photo, too. The copper wire was harvested from cable intended for home wiring. Looks like Rupert intends to cast the whole thing in clear resin as a finishing touch.
Jenny Hart of Sublime Stitching was recently a guest on the television program, Sew It All TV, where she demonstrated how to dress up simple shirts with stitchery. The sweet boatneck shirt pattern and the embroidery pattern for creating a “bejeweled” design on it is available for download over on the Sew It All TV […]
