If you’re ready to try your hand at quilting, but want something a little more useful than a decorative mini quilt, check out this quilted hexagon placemat tutorial that Sister Diane from CraftyPod shared on Spoonflower. I love how the giant hexagons give this traditional quilting method such a bold, fresh look! I haven’t tried […]
One of the exhibits at this weekend’s first Montreal Mini Maker Faire will be The Buttonmashers’ Arcade Royale, a four-player, re-habbed, re-programmed, and re-made video game cabinet.
Portsmouth, NH, has a new maker space! This Friday 8/24 7-9pm Port City makerspace is having our grand opening party! Everybody is invited to come check out the facilities and gawk at awesome projects on display by our members. Come meet other interested people and see for yourself how the DIY community in Portsmouth NH […]
Professional sneaker modifier Alex Nash hacked these Adidas AdiPower Barricade shoes and installed an LCD display in them to show tweets. Nash’s concept was to highlight the important role that Twitter played in the 2012 Olympics with numerous athletes tweeting about their victories and connecting to fans. [via adafruit] More: How-To: Marimekko-Inspired Sneakers @Craftzine.com blog […]
Makers, tinkerers, and hackers have latched onto the Raspberry Pi because of its price and capabilities. And with the enormous Linux community available for support, the pains of working with a new platform have been minimal. Since its release, weโve seen a deluge of incredible projects that use the Raspberry Pi in creative and inventive ways and weโre only just getting started. Itโs for this reason that weโve nominated Raspberry Pi, the $35 Linux computer, for a Makey in the category Most Hackable Gadget.
Week 6, Tinkering Tuesday at Maker Camp. Joe Hudy shows us how to make a marshmallow cannon out of pvc piping and an air compressor.
Maker Camp, sponsored by MAKE magazine, was a virtual summer camp for teens, with a focus on creating, building, and discovering.From July 16th through August 24th, 2012, 30 awesome projects were made in 30 days, on Google+. Maker Camp is free and open to all.
Visit Makezine.com/maker-camp for more information.
Instructions for Joe Hudy’s Marshmallow Cannon: http://makeprojects.com/Project/Extreme-Marshmallow-Cannon/961/1
Adam Mayer and Trammell Hudson from NYC Resistor uncovered a series of photos stored in the ROM of an old Macintosh SE.
