Crafty Events
A weekly roundup of craft fairs and a call for vendors.
Year: 2011
May is Food Month on MAKE!
May is a celebration of food-making here on MAKE, everything from growing it, to preparing it, to hacking the tools and techniques you use in make it. And we won’t forget about the unparalleled joys of snarfing it down. Food preparing is a type of making that many of us tend to overlook when thinking […]
Marine’s Field-Improvised Chess Set From Afghanistan
A Marine’s battlefield chess set made from shells, rounds, and bottle caps.
Meet the Makers: Nirav Patel
Nirav Patel is literally making things with a wave of his hand. Harnessing a hacked Kinect, he has written a program for “Gestural 3D Printing”. He calls the project “inane and irrelevant” but it is actually a perfect, shining example of creative ingenuity!
Recipe: Savory Galettes Filled with Caramelized Onion, Bacon and Brie
You can serve these simple tarts either warm or at room temperature. Either way, the result is a very pleasing and rustic appetizer. (What recipe with bacon wouldn’t be?)
Signal to Noise #2 at Museum of the Moving Image
Babycastle’s hacked video games at Signal to Noise #1 – photo by Wendy Moger Bross Signal to Noise returns to the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, NYC, this Saturday, May 7, with many installations converting electricity into visual and aural stimulation. You’ll encounter hacked Gameboy 8-bit bands (Bubblyfish), augmented reality game shows (The […]
Toner Transfer and Muriatic Acid Etchant: Making PCBs at LVL1
Brad Lyuster of Louisville’s LVL1 hackerspace wrote an excellent guide to etching your own PCBs. A few months ago, the spoiled electrical engineer that I am, I never would have considered making my own PCBs. Any project worth taking off the breadboard was worth sending to China to get made “right.” Of course, there isn’t […]