How-To: Clothespin Spring Wirework Jewelry
Create your own quick an easy charms and pendants with this clothespin spring wirework jewelry tutorial!
Month: March 2013
11 From 11: Apollo Moonshot Tools
In 1969, human beings first set foot on the moon. The mission was Apollo 11. Here are eleven tools that helped us do it. These are not rockets, spaceships, or robots–though those are certainly “tools,” in their own way–but humbler implements, having more in common with the bone club (to use the 2001 metaphor) than the satellite. But that is precisely why they are remarkable.
Charles Guan: Build Your Everything Really Really Fast
Charles Guan is an MIT alumnus, and has been making projects that have been festive and amazing over the past few years. Charles has been influential in the MIT Makerspace/club MITERS, where students create all manner of great projects. He and MITERS members have been frequent fliers at various Maker Faires, so you may already be familiar with his work.
Charles has served as a Teaching Assistant at MIT in Mechanical Engineering, helping his fellow students to fabricate the contraptions of their dreams. As a TA, he’s heard the same questions over and over, so he created some instructional documentation to make his and his fellow students’ lives easier. This was a set of lectures and handouts he called How to Build Your Robot Really Really Fast (HTBYRRRF). In more recent times, he set out to update this as a more inclusive set of building guides. Drawing from his own online documentation, he was able to codify his ideas into a thorough Instructable: How to Build Your Everything Really Really Fast, or HTBYERRF.
How-To: Felted Crazy Cat Lady Sweater
Do you have a special affinity for your feline friends? You’ll definitely want to check out this Modcloth-inspired felted crazy cat lady sweater tutorial!
Old Horns Transformed into iPhone Amplifiers
Austin, Texas-based artist and audiophile Christopher Locke takes old horns and transforms them into amplifiers for iPhones and iPads, calling them AnalogTelePhonographers. The visual blending of analog and digital is certainly intriguing and the sound (video below) is great. His pieces harken back to a time when classic audio equipment was more a piece of […]
Make Your Own Patterned Name Art
Personalize your bedroom with this project.
Raspberry Pi Gives Amiga a New Life
ToolKitMan describes himself as a 36-year-old Italian hardware technician with a passion for retro computers, modern computers, and consoles. Those interests explain his project: marrying an old Amiga 1200 case/keyboard with Raspbery Pi. Have a look.
