MAKE Confetti Party with Kinect/Box2D Mashup
For the upcoming Vancouver Mini Maker Faire fundraiser party tonight, Vincent van Haaff made a fun confetti party with openFrameworks.
Year: 2012
How-To: Grow a Portrait Gourd
This Instructable written by MAKE’s Tim Anderson, documenting the process of Chinese lifetime gourd craftsman Zhang Cairi, focuses on growing gourds into molds shaped to produce portrait busts. But it could be generalized to grow pretty much any hollow form. A speaker horn? A flashlight body? An enclosure for an Arduino or other PCB? A […]
Embroidery Hoop Centerpiece
Incorporate your love of crafting into the lovely decor on your big day with this sweet idea by Juli Vaughn Designs, seen on Ruffled.
Maker Faire Booth Design Challenge
Tips & Tricks on designing your booth for Maker Faire. Hat tip to folks at Seattle Mini Maker Faire for the advice and inspiration!
Homemade Lucky Charms Marshmallows
“Making Lucky Charms from scratch is an achievement that I am proud of, but like climbing Mount Everest, it is not something that I would recommend to everyone,” writes Stef of Cupcake Project. She braved the intensive task of making the crunchy breakfast cereal marshmallows, and it sounds like she won’t be doing it again, […]
Arcade Button Shelves for Fast Inventory Tracking
Not much specific detail about what’s going on in this intriguing tumblog image from British open-source kit-makers .:oomlout:., who simply write: Getting more serious with our button shelves ( ) (shipping has never before felt so much like an 80s arcade game) But unless I miss my guess, they’re tracking their part inventories in real […]
Stage Combat Training Shirt w/Lilypad Arduino
Instructables user grossmr1 teaches stage combat, and was looking for a more efficient way to communicate sword target points to her students than language or pointing. The garment she designed features LEDs at various target points, and conductive pads on the fingers and thumb of one gauntlet. She can select which of the various target […]