Flashback: Retro-Style Running Shoes from Old Tires
Learn to make your own running shoes from a recycled car tire and an old pair of jeans in this tutorial by Andrew Salomone
Year: 2012
Young Maker’s Yarn Pen Inspired by MAKE Article
Al’s project came from the pages of MAKE volume 28, and is a pen that expels yarn instead of ink. When written onto a sticky surface, whatever the user writes becomes tactile, serving the blind and visually impaired.
How-To: Embroidered Cork Jewelry
I’ve got a whole drawer of wine corks in my studio that are just waiting for the right project to come along. And, thanks to this embroidered cork jewelry tutorial that Macedonia-based artist Maya Kuzman shared on the Etsy blog’s How-Tuesday series, I think I’ve finally found it! I love how vibrant and bright the […]
“The best LED cube build we’ve seen”
And the Hack a Day writers have seen a bunch of them. We’ve covered quite a few, ourselves, and I have to concur that this 8x8x8 RGB from Nick Schulze is the best looking, best designed, and (certainly) best documented LED cube build of the lot. Don’t miss the vid, embedded above, to show off […]
How-To: Turn Straight Jeans into Skinnies
Turn your straight jeans into skinnies with this simple straight-to-skinny jeans alteration tutorial from Josie at Fine and Feathered. It’s the perfect alteration trick for a quick wardrobe update, and it’s also a great way to make thrift store finds your own! More: DIY Fashion: From Maxi Dress to Mini Dress @Craftzine.com blog How-To: Silk […]
Maker Shed Exclusive: MintDuino Game Pack
The MintDuino Game Pack provides a fun and informative way to learn about the world of Arduino compatible microcontrollers. Even if you’ve never programmed or dabbled in electronics, the MintDuino Game Pack will give you a firm foundation on which to build!
Patterned Concrete Tables
Kami of Austin Tinkering School wrote in to share these cool concrete tables that her friend Elena Eidelberg created. She works in ceramics but has been experimenting a lot with concrete this year and I think she’s been making some amazing stuff. She’s casting into high relief fabrics and then tinting the concrete and even […]