Dear Dr. Who fans, I have a treat for you: Haley got a new iPhone, and, being the crafty gal that she is, she immediately designed a TARDIS iPhone case cross-stitch pattern for it. (What a great metaphor for a smartphone!) Better yet, she’s sharing the pattern so you can make your own.
Reddit user Queuetue built this impressive-looking shop crane: In my shop, we need to fill empty and stack a lot of barrels. Our old process, using a chain hoist, was fraught with peril – so we decided to build … something. It’s a standard box store manual shop crane, modified with a 2hp motor and […]
Back in June, I was excited about the idea of so-called “light field” photography – a digital raster process that captures not only intensity and color for each pixel, but also the direction of inbound light. The upshot? So-called “light field” cameras actually record a vector field for each image that allows ray-tracing routines in software to produce images of the scene arbitrarily focused at any depth, including infinite.
Want to add a little intrigue and mystery to your office Halloween party? You could always make a set of these tiny leather spell books by Ruby from the Ruby Murray blog, then start consulting them periodically during that boring Monday morning meeting! Head over to her site to see the full tutorial. Inspired to […]
Ruby, Lena and Charlotte are three young girls who built a secret knock gumball machine by following Steve Hoefer’s instructions in MAKE. As demonstrated at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011, a special knock (shave and a haircut, but don’t tell…) activates the gumball dispenser. For their next project they are thinking of designing a car that looks like a camel.
In celebration of the Wearable Light Organ (above), our 10th electronics project in the Weekend Projects series, we’re doing another giveaway. This time, you could win a Maker’s Notebook AND a Maker Shed Mintronics: Survival Pack which is packed with some of the very components we’ve been using in many of our projects.
Make: Live’s Halloween bash featured action stylist Anney Fresh, electrically-enhanced pumpkins aka “hack-o-lanterns”, and a costume parade by attendees at the party hosted by MakerBot in Brooklyn, NY. Matt and Becky open the show with an homage to The X-Files.
