Month: February 2013

Growing Your Business From TechShop to the Garage

Growing Your Business From TechShop to the Garage

By Stephen Murphey

Stephen Murphey

I'm a geek who loves to build stuff. Spent a few years building space stuff, a few more helping entrepreneurs build businesses. Today, we have access to tools and resources unheard of 10 years ago...and we can use it for DIY space exploration. I think that's pretty cool...

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I first met Laura Bruland of Yes & Yes Designs in May 2012 at TechShop in San Francisco. As an avid book reader I was intrigued by the fact that she took old discarded books and turned them into jewelry. OK, I slightly cringed at this, but the results are beautiful. At the time she was able to run her entire business out of TechShop. No overheard, no employees. Just her and a monthly membership.

Move forward seven months and she’s grown her business from six stores in San Francisco to 23 around the world. She went from being a one-woman show to having a business partner/employee and her own laser cutter

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Tutorial: Single-Stem Rosette Necklace

Tutorial: Single-Stem Rosette Necklace

By Laura Cochrane

Laura Cochrane

"To oppose something is to maintain it." –Ursula Le Guin

Currently: NEO.LIFE Alum: Instructables and MAKE

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From the brilliant fingertips of Meream Pacayra comes this sweet single-stem rosette necklace, made from yarn, florist wire, and a few other items. Over on her blog, Bored & Crafty, she shows you how to make your own. Also check out Meream’s Guitar Bag tutorial, originally published in CRAFT Volume 10!

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Amazing Scratch-Built Nautilus

Amazing Scratch-Built Nautilus

By Jason Babler

Jason Babler

I'm the Creative Director of Make: magazine.

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I’m already a big fan of Jonathan Kuriscak’s skills at customizing action figures, but his scratch-built Nautilus is phenomenal. Straight from Johnathan:

The Nautilus, Captain Nemo’s Submarine from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was scratch built from various materials. At 38 inches long, glass port windows, and with over 5,000 hand laid rivets this build was a large undertaking!

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Interview with Pinoccio Co-Founder Eric Jennings

Interview with Pinoccio Co-Founder Eric Jennings

By Stett Holbrook

Stett Holbrook

Stett Holbrook is editor of the Bohemian, an alternative weekly in Santa Rosa, California. He is a former senior editor at Maker Media.

He is also the co-creator of Food Forward, a documentary TV series for PBS about the innovators and pioneers changing our food system.

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Eric Weddington, marketing manager for open source and communities at Atmel, posted an in-depth interview with Pinoccio’s Eric Jennings. Pinnoccio is a new, open source hardware company. Their first product is a microcontroller board aimed at creating “a complete ecosystem” for the internet of things. Pinoccio calls their board an “Arduino Mega with wings.” It’s Raspberry Pi-friendly, too.

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How-To: Crochet Bobbles in a Knitting Project

How-To: Crochet Bobbles in a Knitting Project

By Haley Pierson-Cox

Haley Pierson-Cox

Haley Pierson-Cox from Red-Handled Scissors is a maker of crafts, a lover of cats, an avid swearing enthusiast, a cross-stitch book author, and a general purveyor of quirk. She's also sometimes an irritable cartoon named Tiny Cranky Haley. https://www.redhandledscissors.com

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Add gorgeous texture to your fiber projects the easy way with this tutorial for crocheting bobbles in a knitting project!

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Extrapolation Factory Imagines the Future of the Dollar Store

Extrapolation Factory Imagines the Future of the Dollar Store

By John Baichtal

John Baichtal

My interests include writing, electronics, RPGs, scifi, hackers & hackerspaces, 3D printing, building sets & toys. @johnbaichtal nerdage.net

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The Extrapolation Factory is an exhibit and workshop created by Chris Woebken & Elliott P. Montgomery. It explores the what a dollar store might look like in the future, including outlandish products like the “Terabit Cortical Adapter” pictured above. The Extrapolation Factory is an imagination-based assembly line for developing snapshots of future scenarios, embodied as […]

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