Month: March 2012

How-To: Duct Tape Hair Bow

How-To: Duct Tape Hair Bow

It’s Friday, and I think you should celebrate the start of the weekend by making something fun with duct tape! Need a project? Check out this snazzy duct tape hair bow from Laurie at Tip Junkie! After seeing her duct tape coffee cup sleeves, I can totally see fellow CRAFT writer Lish rocking one of […]

Hackerspace Happenings: Spring Classes at TX/RX

Hackerspace Happenings: Spring Classes at TX/RX

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). Spring Classes at Houston’s TX/RX Labs Our lineup of informative, innovative, hands-on classes is geared towards […]

Glitch Textiles

Glitch Textiles

Apparenty glitches are the new stitches, because artist Phillip Stearns made this series of Glitch Textiles from images he took with a broken digital camera, and they look totally amazing. These blankets are layered with irony: a digital photographic image, made with an intentionally broken (rewired) camera, is mechanically woven or knit into a photoblanket, […]

Makers at World Wide Rome

Makers at World Wide Rome

I’m in Rome at a gathering of makers, organized to promote how Italy can develop and contribute to the maker movement. Chris Anderson and Massimo Banzi presented this morning, and I’ll be up in the afternoon. Riccardo Luna is the host and conference organizer of World Wide Rome – the Makers Edition. The conference is […]

AnnMarie Thomas

Real Tools for Kids

Recently, while looking online for woodworking tools appropriately sized for my preschool daughter, I came across some construction sets geared toward children. Thinking fondly of the sets I had when I was little, I looked closely to see if I could find one suited for my kids.   I was intrigued by one kit that promised […]