Printable Mini-T Beams
Thingiverse user Pieter Bos of the Netherlands printed these Mini-T beams based off the MakerBeam profile, originally added to Thingiverse by Luis.
Year: 2011
How-To: Carve a Wooden Spoon
I love the wooden spoon-carving instructions on this bushcraft knife-maker’s website. Makes me want to make one. Our magazine editor-in-chief Mark Frauenfelder is a spoon carver, but I’ve never tried my hand at it. Looks like fun.
DON’T MISS IT! Make: Live Episode 18: Toys & Games
We’re broadcasting shortly! Tonight’s Make: Live, our streaming show and tell, celebrates the release of MAKE v28, the toys & games issue! Learn about David Harris’ RFID teddy bear, Onyx Ashanti’s Beatjazz controllers, and Michael Colombo’s version of flashlight tag.
How-To: Skull Truffles with Custom Mold and Walnut Brains
Our favorite maker holiday, Halloween, is right around the corner, and Make: Projects community member Marc Brownlow shared his awesome Skull Truffles how-to with us just in time. In true maker spirit, just making the truffles wasn’t enough — he uses polymer clay to sculpt little skulls and then food-grade silicone to make the mold. […]
Birch Fabrics Giveaway
Birch Fabrics is gearing up for Quilt Market and the debut of their newest line, Circa 52. They’re holding a giveaway for the collection over on their blog right now. Hurry on over!
Printable Cootie Catcher/Fortune Teller
Where I grew up, we called these little paper contraptions fortune tellers. Later, I heard them referred to as cootie catchers. Either way, they are loads of fun. I loved, l-o-v-e-d when a friend would whip one up and we’d spend ages going through, seeing what fortunes we could get. It was such a simple […]
Making Movable Art and Robotics a Little Easier with Arduino
“Judy Castro doesn’t have a background in engineering. But with Arduino, she doesn’t need one to make her sculptures move, light up or breathe fire. The San Francisco artist uses the microcontroller and software program to create interactive works of art — something she once might have paid an electrical engineer thousands of dollars to do.”…