I often find bags of wooden thread spools at thrift stores or garage sales, and feel a crazy urge to rescue them. If you have a similar affliction and need a way to repurpose the spools, check out this tutorial from jessica of Miniature Rhino for turning them in to beautiful photo holders. Planning a […]
Clever, simple idea for a workholder that grabs automatically when you push a board into it, and releases automatically when you pull it out. From medicinal chemist and woodworker Brian Grella. From where I sit, it looks like you might only need to make one of these rotating cams, and the other side of the clamp could be a fixed, flat fence.
I am deeply, deeply impressed by the level of skill and patience that went into making this TARDIS in a bottle from Craftster user hpotterwizard. I thought that I had mad TARDIS crafting skills, but I will now tip my hat (fez?) to the master! More: Project: TARDIS Phone Charging Station @Craftzine.com blog TARDIS Travel […]
At Maker Faire: Bay Area Kimmo & Tero Karvinen, authors of Make: Arduino Bots and Gadgets, brought along an Arduino robot you control with your mind! They had so many requests about how they built it they decided to release a Maker Press book, Make a Mind-Controlled Arduino Robot. Read on for an exclusive interview…
Daniel Lacey-McDermott of Oslo, Norway, built this synth out of 40106 oscillators, an ATmega328, and a Velleman MK171 voice changer kit, all stuffed into a gutted SNES case.
I got some free wine and the opportunity to see Elaine Reichek’s incredible digital and hand embroidery work last week at the opening of The Whitney Biennial. Reichek’s contribution to The Whitney Biennial is from a series called “Ariadne’s Thread,” which is based on a Greek myth involving thread and the labyrinth. Some of her […]
Much as I admire Dukno Yoon’s evident skills as a jeweler and metalsmith, I have to say his aeronautical engineering needs a bit of brushing up. There’s just no way he’s ever going to get off the ground in that thing.
