Nyan Cat Quilt
Here’s some more crafty Nyan Cat fun, this time in the form of a cool mini-quilt from Cheryl Sleboda of muppin.com. More Pop Tart cats, please! [via Geek Crafts] Related: Download And Make a Papercraft Nyan Cat Machine
Year: 2011
AS220 Labs, Fab Academy, and more on the streets of Providence Saturday
The makers and hackers in the labs will be showcasing their nerdiness at this year’s Fest by showing off the Lab’s latest and greatest machine – a CNC milling machine made by the students of AS220 Labs’ Fab Academy with assistance from the noble makers of MIT. It’s like a small robot that can fabricate circuit boards…to make yet more robots!
Make a Typecase into a Coffee Table
It’s metal month on MAKE, so in this episode Meg Allan Cole put on her Flashdance leotard and tries her hand at welding to transform a vintage typecase into a industrial coffee table.
5 Metalworking Projects and a Welding Primer
In honor of August being metalworking month on Makezine, we rounded up 5 cool, diverse metalworking projects and a primer from our DIY wiki Make: Projects. Full build instructions are available for you so you can get cranking this weekend. First up is the Geared Candleholder by kinetic artist Benjamin Cowden, which first appeared on […]
Inspiration: Cascade Volcano Elevation Maps
Mt. Rainier Mt. Shasta I’d like to climb a mountain with my dad. He has climbed many of the peaks in the Cascade Range, including Shasta, Hood, and Rainier. I was talking about it with him the other day, and he suggested Mt. McLoughlin, in southern Oregon. So I was looking around for information about […]
Washing machine control-panel radio
Jan Mugara sent me some photos of a cool-looking radio he made using a washing machine control panel and other scrap parts. I asked him to share his story: I had three damaged washing machines. The appliances were broken and unrepairable. The only parts that could be reused were the control panels. I also had […]
Shane Waltener: Lace Webs
Many moons ago I found the above image in a Tumblr feed without any luck of locating the artist. Finally, Lovely Textiles has the answer: London artist Shane Waltener! This piece, Auntie Peggy Has Departed, is a great example of his body of work, utilizing lace doilies and audio as part of an installation focused […]