Flashback: Upcycle Dishware into Cake Stands
Turn pretty pieces of dishware into gorgeous cake stands with this exclusive CRAFT project!
Month: January 2013
MAKE Editors’ Hangout on Air Today at 2pm PST/5pm PST
For today’s Editors’ hangout on air, MAKE staffers will talk about what hardware, make-ish gifts we gave and received and what we’re planning to make in the year to come with said gifts. Join us at 2pm PST and 5pm PST live and online right here.
Pebble Ready to Roll?
The folks behind the highly anticipated Pebble smart watch, a crowdfunded project that’s now the stuff of Kickstarter legend, say they have some big news to share with backers and the world Jan. 9.
Hand-Crocheted Police Car Sculpture
Finnish artist Kaija Papu created this incredibly realistic looking sculpture of a police car from carved foam plastic covered in a hand-crocheted exterior.
Best of 2012: 3D Printed Objects
While 3D printers don’t yet compete with toasters and DVD players in the home, the dam on the consumer market has been breached as the number of lower priced, easy-to-use models–and those who use them–grows. Part of this trend surely comes from the ever-expanding catalog of 3D printed objects, from the useful to the fanciful. Printing chess pieces and busts of Stephen Colbert is nice, but the range of what people create with their printers grows by the day and in turn inspires others to model and print ever more striking/utilitarian/beautiful/ridiculous/amazing objects.
How-To: Kitchen Organizer Pegboard
Start the New Year off with everything in its place—at least in one room of the house—with this kitchen organizer pegboard tutorial from Emma at A Beautiful Mess!
Mindstorms Candy Sorter
YouTube user NXT1Engineer, who built a Mindstorms beer opening robot, is at it again with this M&M-sorting machine. I love the cleverness and efficiency of the various sub-mechanisms. [via The NXT Step]
