First Cedar Rapids Mini Maker Faire This Saturday!
Over 45 makers from Iowa, Indian, and Missouri are converging on the Lindale Mall tomorrow, Saturday, February 25th, for the inaugural Cedar Rapids Mini Maker Faire.
Month: February 2012
Catch Our Own Meg Allan Cole on the Martha Stewart Show!
Our own Meg had some exciting news to share today. She’ll be appearing on the Martha Stewart Show, demonstrating one of her popular CRAFT video projects! The air date of the show is too be announced, but will be very soon. She’ll be vlogging her experience and sharing it on the CRAFT YouTube channel, so […]
Hackerspace Happenings: Weekend Edition
Are you a hackerspace member with an event you’d like to publicize? Send it to johnb@makezine.com or tweet me at @johnbaichtal and I’ll post it. Also feel free to subscribe to my hackerspaces Twitter list. Hackerspace Happenings runs weekly(ish) Tuesday(i)s(h). Discotech + openFrameworks at OmniCorpDetroit OmniCorpDetroit is happy to announce the following two events for […]
How-To: Eye Mask
Love Sewing magazine’s Style Lab has put together a simple eye mask how-to using scrap fabric. Nice call on adding the long lashes!
Ziwon Wang’s Cybernetic Kinetic Sculptures
Ziwon Wang’s work explores the relationship between human and machine. His works are eerily familiar (uncanny valley, anyone?) and mechanized, with movement apparatuses exposed.
How-To: No-Sew Fabric Scrap Shoes
Now, this is a stash buster that I can really get behind! Turn some inexpensive flats into handmade fashion art with this fabric scrap shoes tutorial from Jennifer at Naughty Secretary Club. It’s a great way to use even your tiniest pieces of leftover fabric, and there’s no stitching required! More: How-To: Cat Shoes @Craftzine.com […]
Making Money With Drone-Based Businesses
The emerging story of entrepreneurs using drones to provide marketable services is fascinating to me. Small businesses have been making money by making drones themselves for quite awhile, now, but I’m just now starting to see start-ups using drones to sell services. Aerial photography is maybe the most obvious opportunity—surveying real estate, covering sporting or […]