Big news in the world of Open Source Hardware! Two Open Source Hardware makers were featured on Entrepreneur.com! These are well known innovators in the maker community, Bre Pettis and Limor Fried. It’s fantastic to see OSHW folks getting the spotlight, not only because they make great stuff but they’re also doing great business. I’d […]
The Maker Shed is giving away an iPad loaded with Make: The Complete Collection (PDF). It’s super-easy to enter, and no purchase is necessary. Read all the details about how to enter on the Maker Shed’s contest page.
By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics Anabeth Dollind made this assortment of quilted balls, based on tilings of the sphere. These first two are spherical versions of Platonic solids: the dodecahedron and icosahedron, with twelve pentagons and twenty triangles, respectively. Next are a spherical version of the icosidodecahedron, which has twelve pentagons and […]
Create a unique nightlight using pattern tissue and an embroidery hoop.
So you have a small business. You have stuff to market, and you’re marketing it on your blog, Twitter, and Facebook. (Or, some combination of those three.) How often can you get away with mentioning your products before you start looking too spammy and annoying your readers?
Michael Colombo writes: Recently I completed a hardware hacking gig for the French street artist Zevs. He wanted to take an old school Sony Dream Machine clock radio and enable it to play “Hip to be Square” by Huey Lewis and the News at a greatly reduced speed. The piece premiered along with several other […]
Check out Going Sew Crazy to see how you can easily piece together this fun retro-inspired potholder. With scraps of your favorite fabrics, you could make a fun collection of them for your own kitchen. More: How-To: Simple Quilted Potholder How-To: Spiderweb Potholders How-To: Wool Felt Leaf Potholders
