I was lucky enough to be able to go to Roadworks yesterday, a steamroller printing festival held each year by the San Francisco Center for the Book. It’s basically a wonderfully nerdy block party, lined with bookmakers, printmakers, and letterpress companies, but the star is the steamroller. Four artists created 3×3-foot lino cuts which used […]
Today Ladyada and I visited the new MakerBot store in NYC. Video above, (photos here). Great location, and it was packed in waves, even on a Sunday. MakerBot has MakerBot-made designs for sale in the store, as well as community-made models. All the designers were contacted and compensated for their participation. If you’re keeping score […]
This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw…
Here are some cool things we saw in the CRAFT Flickr Pool this week: day 365, by luckyjackson:: Halloween Paper Rosette Ornament, by m a r i c e felted superbears, by gabrielefelt Amigurumi tattooo machine, by Ohioja Bronze Dalek, by Lucyravenscar (Angry Angel)
In the wake of MakerBot’s Replicator 2 announcement, there has been a lot of discussion and questioning about the open source status of the company’s offerings. The MakerWare software used to control both the new printer and the original Replicator is available for download now. It is clearly closed source, even though it contains some open source software, and instead of being open source, they are offering a developer program.
I absolutely adore this contrasting color raincoat that Jessica from Me Sew Crazy shared on Riley Blake Designs. Head on over to the site to see how to make your own!
Jeni of In Color Order has updated a previous tutorial of hers (a lined drawstring bag) by showing it off in three new stripe designs. Jeni updated the tutorial as part of the new series Travel Handmade.
