Giles Booth wanted to build an internet printer, which is commonly used to print out tweets and do other automated outputs. I wanted to build a little internet printer, spewing out weather and tweets and the like. When I was testing my thermal printer, however, I got bored reading sample text and replaced it with […]
Add DIY felted hearts to your cold weather wardrobe favorites!
Send some very modern holiday greetings with this geometric Christmas tree card tutorial!
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The first printed Advent calendar was produced in Hamburg between 1902-1903. Close to 110 years later, a maker from Minnesota, Peter Leppik, has updated this traditional seasonal register and brought it into the 21st century. His 3D printed Advent calendar is available on Thingiverse for all to download, print, and mutate. This advent calendar has […]
Dutch glass crasftman Ramon Vink runs a studio called Poelgeest Glass. Using modern lampworking techniques and tools, he makes scientific apparatus and artistic pieces like this Klein bottle, the forming of which he has documented in a series of five YouTube videos. The videos themselves are pretty raw, with minimal post-production and no narration, but taken altogether they do a good job of documenting not just the general process of forming a Klein bottle from stock glass tube, but the specific tools and skilled manipulations required for each operation.
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We published Super Awesome Sylvia’s gift guide about two weeks ago. It contained a list of high and low tech gift ideas for young makers like her. Now, she has created an entertaining video that showcases a new set of gift ideas.
