Turn an old maxi dress into a mini teepee that’s perfect for playrooms or pets with this easy peasy tot teepee tutorial from Sheri at Awesome Sauce and Asshattery! More: How-To: Build a Cardboard Cat Rocket @Craftzine.com blog Princess Playhouse @Craftzine.com blog HOW TO – Make a Cardboard Playhouse @Craftzine.com blog
The official Arduino wifi shield is out, and it’s kinda sexy! The Arduino Wifi Shield is finally here! We’ve been working for a while on this new wifi shield for Arduino that is quite different from what you can find already on the market. Instead of just getting the usual pre-made module we decided to […]
Canadian Pacific DC-3 Yarn Bomb from Tyler Kuhn on Vimeo. Living in NYC, I’ve witnessed my share of yarn bombing. I’ve seen fiber-covered bikes, bridges, parking meters, and even the Wall Street bull. Even so, I think this yarn bombed DC-3 airplane from Yarn Bomb Yukon just might win the prize for the most unexpected […]
Pop Ben Chapman’s 3D printed knife sharpener onto the bottom of a standard coffee mug to use the unglazed portion of the vessel to hone a blade.
Week 5, Weird Science Wednesday at Maker Camp. Learn all about the science of electricity with squishy circuits.
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.
The Parrot.AR drone teardown on iFixIt saw one of the highest repairability scores that our pals over there have ever awarded. They cite the Parrot.AR’s repair-friendly design, the use of easily demountable fasteners, connectors, and subassemblies, and great repair support from Parrot itself, including readily available replacement parts and a series of how-to-fix it videos on the Parrot.AR site. And while a certain amount of repair-friendly design is just common sense in any R/C aircraft, common sense is not always so common, and even in the R/C market Parrot’s repairability still goes above and beyond the norm.
Seeing this old Connect 4 game took me on a nostalgic trip back to the early 80s, sprawled out on our old brown carpeting, spending hours strategizing, stacking the chips, then pulling the lever and watching them all fall. And the fact that three classmates thought to convert it into a binary clock and share […]
