Come to the Exploratorium this weekend as the Tinkering Studio hosts the first of four Open MAKE Saturdays. It runs from 10am to 2pm on the third Saturday of each month through April. Explore your own creativity with makers from around the Bay Area, who will share their art, ingenuity, and techniques for making.
Rick Schertle has been a part of the MAKE community for years now. He’s authored projects, created a kit, and been to many a Maker Faire. To top it off, he’s an incredibly nice guy. When he’s not busy teaching a classroom of kids during his day job, he’s teaching kids the joy of […]
Elbow patches are nice because they add structure to clothing. They visually explain what’s underneath: a bone joint that can bend and cause additional wear and tear on the material in that location. So yes, they are first practical – they’re patches. But I love them because they make the garment look loved. You don’t […]
Hudson’s Bay point blankets are beautiful and iconic examples of simple design. I adore the solid primary color stripes of the original blankets, so this Hudson’s Bay-inspired crib blanket tutorial and knitting pattern from The Purl Bee really caught my eye. If, like me, you’re more of a crocheter than a knitter, I think the […]
You might have noticed in our own Meg Allan Cole’s “How to Make an Upholstered Headboard” video a very funky geometric necklace she was wearing. WELL, in her latest video Meg shows you how to make this simple accessory. Take a look.
Tony asks:
I am really interested in learning about electronics and how to make kits and potentially make things with my kids. However, I am more creative than technical and I was wondering where would be a good book/kit/guide to start with. I am not an engineer and I don’t know anything about circuits, semiconductors or arduino. My dream would to be able to make a gadget i could put on my dog’s leash and it would transmit signals via gps/3g as to where he was if he ran away (which he manages to a lot).
“Shape memory” materials are so named because they can be deformed, then restored to their earlier shape by changing external conditions, commonly temperature. Though metallic shape memory materials (aka “shape memory alloys,” “smart metals,” and “memory metals,” among others) are best known, many plastics also exhibit shape memory effects. Formed into wires, shape memory alloys […]
