Station Manager Kits
Here are crates of gear ready to be picked up by Maker Faire station managers. Gareth and I are coveting the black toolboxes.
Year: 2012
How-To: Triangle Patchwork
Brett Bara of Manhattan Craft Room has a new tutorial up on Design*Sponge showing how to create simple triangle patchwork that can be used in decor or quilting projects. This isn’t technically a quilting project, since it’s not actually quilted — just pieces of fabric sewn together into a patchwork. But you could quilt this […]
Hair Raising Experiments at Maker Education Day
ArcAttack! does some amazing experiments with kids at Maker Education Day today.
3D Printer Trading Cards (From the Future!): Fab@Home
There will be a lot of people showing off their 3D printers at the Bay Area Maker Faire this weekend, including Jeffrey Lipton representing Cornell’s venerable Fab@Home project. We previously posted about some of the food printing exploits of the Cornell Creative Machines Lab on the CRAFT blog last year. Food is just one application […]
How-To: Fruit Balloons
Simplicity breeds awesomeness, as is evident in this fantastically brilliant and whimsical project from Brittany Watson Jepsen on Oh Happy Day. We’ve been planning a “fruit party” for a few years now, the gist is that everyone brings an exotic fruit and we, the hosts, provide a batch of the more common kinds. Who doesn’t […]
House in the Hallway Tutorial
I bow down in homage to the maker of this amazing tension rod hallway playhouse. Simple, brilliant, and chock full of gorgeous details, like the rickrack shingles, mailbox pocket, and cardboard lantern. The tutorial is detailed and clear, too!
Check out Adam Savage’s ZF-1
Tested takes you inside Adam Savage’s man cave where he keeps amazing movie props and collectibles, as well as works on his own projects. Today, Adam tells the story of his Zorg Industries ZF-1 replica from The Fifth Element, which he’s been working on for over 13 years.