[3D images from top left, clockwise: marshmallow shooters; silk-screening, DIY zipline, and a homemade cigar box guitar!] It is most definitely summer here in California. School is out, and parents and kids are looking for fun stuff to do. The MAKE School’s Out! Best Summer Ever special issue is just the ticket! We’ve put together […]
I love the simplicity of these cool cable lamps from Wibke from fingerfabrik. They use very basic hardware store materials (and a bit of an IKEA hack) so they are budget-friendly as well. Get the full how-to over on fingerfabrik. [via IKEA Hacks]
Ben Hollis and Eva Funderburgh chose an unusual material to house their Arduino in: clay. Glowback, the little creature they’ve created, has nodules on its back made of transluscent porcelain. The porcelain gives off a soft glow in staggered rhythms provided by the super bright LEDs underneath the nodules.
Learn how easy it is to make your own solder flux at home.
What a great twist on terrarium creation! That’s Quirky turned an old light fixture into a funky, unique succulent terrarium. A wonderful way to upcycle a household item. More: How-To: Mini Terrarium Necklace @Craftzine.com blog My Own Moss Terrarium @Craftzine.com blog How-To: Sew a Terrarium @Craftzine.com blog
Working with lovely eyelet border pieces in a garment project can be daunting. Luckily, Sarai at Colette shared her experience working through placement, seaming, and backing of this delicate textile in a recent dress project. I love when people share their troubleshooting process. It makes the tutorial that much more meaningful! More: Beautiful Dyed Eyelet […]
Last September, I wrote about the Thingiverse “Cube Gears” phenomenon, briefly tracing the origin of user emmett’s Screwless Cube Gears through its evolution from Haruki Nakamura’s papercraft geared heart sculpture via user GregFrost’s printable Broken Heart thing. At the time, I really wanted to exhaust the graph of the cube gears / heart gears phenomenon, but didn’t have the available free time. Well, I finally got around to doing it.
