Georgia hackerspace Freeside Atlanta needed countertops, so they made their own with chicken wire and concrete, while referencing this instructable. Freeside is a great space, but our kitchen could be charitably described as “needs work”. The countertops are old, difficult to keep clean, and just generally bad. What the heck, we’re a hacker space, right? […]
Former CRAFTZINE and MAKEZINE blogger Michelle Kempner recently offered an irresistible deal to anyone who sponsors her in an upcoming run benefiting AIDS research: get yourself Shrinky-Dinked! You can probably tell a couple of things from the images above: I didn’t choose myself to be immortalized in Shrinky Dink (that’s my 8-year-old son, Arlo) Michelle […]
Make: Live ep03 video is online! Thanks to our guest Sean Ragan, we enjoyed an evening of science. Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTunes, download Make: Live episode 03 in its entirety (m4v), or watch clips on YouTube. Also check out the chat room transcript! Sean Ragan – Laser Projection Microscope MAKE contributing writer […]
My kids are constantly collecting all kinds of bits and pieces and trinkets from outside when we go on hikes or just play out in the backyard. I’m going to have to make some of these scavenger bags from Steffanie of sew grown so they’ll have a place to put all their treasures for easy […]
Kristen at Plush You! is celebrating a week of crafty videos. I like this how-to for fortune cookies! It really shows off the process, which can be tricky.
If you take two empty cans, one closed on the bottom and the other open (i.e. a tube), and turn them upside down, which will be harder to push into a bucket of sand? If, reasoning by analogy to liquids, you (like most people), said the closed one…well, you can sort of guess where this is heading: A closed can is, in fact, easier to push into a bed of sand than an open tube. Given the usual fine print. Adrian Cho explains over at ScienceNOW:
Michelle Engel Bencsko of Cloud 9 Fabrics shares her quick and easy tutorial for whipping up a fabric shade for a GRÖNÖ IKEA Lamp. It’s a project that can be completed in about half an hour, so you can easily change out the shade with your mood or the season. Related: How-To: IKEA Grönö Lamp […]
