I’ve just stumbled across artist Megan Piontkowski, and these endearing sculptures of houseplants that she made from fabric a few years ago, as I was skimming through the artists who will be participating in the GO open studio project in Brooklyn this weekend.
If you’ve ever walked through an IKEA before, you know that they’re filled with some of the more well-designed and inexpensive raw materials you can repurpose for your project.
There’s a new TechShop opening this fall: We are proud to announce the opening of TechShop Austin-Round Rock, located in La Fontera in Round Rock, Texas! TechShop Austin-Round Rock is located at 120 Sundance Parkway, Suite 350, Round Rock, Texas, in the Lowe’s and Sam’s Club shopping center. The building is 17,000 square feet and […]
Tuesday is Toolsday here at MAKE, and to celebrate, we’re having a Hangout on Air. Join us 6pm PDT to talk about some of your favorite tools and to show off your workspace.
It’s the first day of school for children here in Michigan, so I’ve seen lots of cute photos, many featuring handmade clothing or accessories, from friends as they sent their kids off to their new classrooms. Amy of This Heart of Mine created this sweet (literally) bag of frosted cookie letters, for Design Mom, to […]
Jennifer Ackerman-Haywood of Craft Sanity made a whole collection of handmade goodies for her daughters to take on their first day of school today. Did you make any projects for your students on their first day of school?
I tend to do my fine-detail circuit work inside the house on my electronics workbench, and rougher work in my garage workshop. I have vises installed in both places, each chosen to suit the work: in the house I use a PanaVise Jr. Mini-Vise mounted on a tray base; in the garage it’s a heftier swivel vise bolted to my workbench. Now, PanaVise has turned things upside down by offering this new Vise Buddy Jr., which is a small, precision vise head that you can quickly clamp into your bigger bench vise.
