MakerBot Industries co-founder Adam “Phooky” Mayer has vowed to build a robot a month in 2013: As midnight approached this New Year’s Eveโ as champagne bubbled from uncorked necks and we all prepared for the coming year in various postures of revelry or bleak resignationโ I grappled silently with the pivotal question of our time: […]
I am digging I Spy DIY’s GUY DIY week. We can’t forget our dudes in the craft game, ladies. This leather-covered flask is the perfect way to get a maker dude started on crafting cool stuff or would make a nice Valentine’s Day gift for your honey.
Unsightly woodpile cluttering your garden? Have you considering turning it into a glorious drum set?
For Valentine’s Day, it doesn’t get much cuter than DIY his and her pillowcases!
Haystack is a craft school that teaches blacksmithing, clay, fibers, glass, graphics, metals, and wood; they’ve even got a Fab Lab. The studios wind their way down the side of a huge moss covered rockย on Deer Isle in Maine. Their Summer deadline for scholarships and workshops is coming up at the end of the month: […]
For months, controversy has been building around 24-year-old Austinite Cody Wilson, full-time law student and part-time director of Defense Distributed, a non-profit working to develop and freely distribute designs for working 3D-printable firearms. Even before Sandy Hook, their “WikiWeapon” project was controversial, placing the group squarely at the intersection of emerging debates over the uses and abuses of both crowdfunding and 3D printing. After the tragedy, that controversy assumed a sudden, violent urgency on the national stage, and Wilson became an even hotter media commodity. He receives death threats and strangers recognize him on the street. When I catch up to him, on Jan. 16, President Obama has just unveiled the most sweeping package of gun-control proposals the U.S. has seen in decades.
Make your next event a little more DIY dapper with chevron painted neckties!
