I’m in the mood to stitch on unusual things today, so this embroidered wooden pendant necklace from Brittni at papernstitch caught my eye immediately. Head over to her site to find out where to pick up your own stitchable pendent and see the complete how-to. More: TARDIS iPhone Case Cross-Stitch Pattern @Craftzine.com blog How-To: Embroidered […]
On this week’s Make: Talk podcast, Mark talks with inveterate tinkerer and “broad-spectrum hobbyist” Steve Lodefink about his sunburst guitar project from MAKE Volume 29, his atomic ball clock, bottle rockets and other projects.
MIT Media Labbers Amit Zoran and Joe Paradiso have created a handheld, digitally-controlled milling device that attempts to combine the benefits of CAD and freehand fabrication.
I was lucky enough to be asked to speak at the Michigan Girl Geek Dinner in East Lansing last night (more on that to come!). I had a great time and saw some wonderful projects guests were working on, including this Pac-Man cuff crated by bead and fiberart artist Jenny Schu. Jenny has been beading […]
In today’s project on diyphysics.com, David Prutchi shows how to build a Cockcroft–Walton multiplier using a “ladder” of capacitors and diodes on perfboard, submerged in mineral oil, inside a sealed plastic container. The multiplier takes high voltage AC, e.g. from a TV flyback transformer, and both rectifies it to DC and steps it up considerably. […]
By Lish Dorset Raise your hand if you’ve ever wanted to try quilting but thought it would be too hard. (Okay, I can’t really can’t see you on the internet, but I’ll bet there are some of you raising your hand.) I felt the very same way not too long ago. My mom started quilting […]
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). Jigsaw Renaissance Housewarming Party Seattle hackerspace Jigsaw Renaissance has moved into its new space, and […]
