I’m pleased to welcome a new guest author to Make: Online! David Cranor will be covering projects and people on the maker side of high-tech academic research. David Cranor is an inventor, adventurer, and pineapple upside down cake enthusiast. He is currently a student at the MIT Media Lab researching human/computer interaction, as well as […]
My husband plays the guitar, banjo and violin, and any time he picks up one of his instruments, the kids always seem to want to play along. I love the idea of making simple, playable cardboard kid-sized versions of the instruments so they can do just that. Get the template and instructions for making these […]
Discarded Christmas trees are a blight on Brooklyn curbs in January, even well into February. Local designers in et al. collaborative took it upon themselves to turn these dead decorations into something more lovely, and came up with these lamps called fLume.
Instructables user dnewman used his EMSL Eggbot rotary plotter to print an accurate nutrition label on the side of a raw egg. A delightful and otherwise fairly useless thing to do. I heartily approve. [via adafruit]
The cute factor in this adorable crochet hat from Linda Permann in Petitie Purls is about ten million. Whether you’re a crochet-curious knitter or a seasoned hooker, you’ll love the results of this quick and easy pattern. It includes four sizes, from baby to adult, so you can make one for each of the “sisters” […]
Jim Hooker of Minneapolis, MN, carved this kicking goat. It was his first attempt at creating a wooden automaton. [Thanks, Daniel!]
This Instructable from Jared Foster doesn’t just show you how to make his cool persistence-of-vision business card. It takes you through the construction of a circulating etch tank, the modification of a laminating machine to make a stencil applicator, the assembly of a controller to turn a toaster into a reflow oven, and the cobbling-together of a vacuum pickup tool for SMT components. And then you get some practice using all that cool stuff making a POV business card. It even comes with obligatory American Psycho allusions.
