How-To: Hand-Stitched Eyelet Towel Loops
Add a little handmade charm to your kitchen necessities with hand-stitched eyelet towel loops!
Month: April 2013
Crafty Event: The Museum of Craft and Design Reopens in San Francisco
Attention West Coast crafters: This weekend marks the reopening of the Museum of Craft and Design in San Francisco!
Maker Scouts Love Bugs
As educators, we are always seeking subjects that are robust enough to allow children to have choices and are gender neutral to maximize engagement. The Exploratory specializes in developing projects that incorporate several learning opportunities into one project. This week, we introduced circuits and robotics and continued woodworking skills all connected by the love of bugs.
Steamer Trunk Diaramas
Artist Kathleen Vance created this series of works called “Traveling Landscapes,” from steamer trunks that she constructed miniature, natural landscapes inside.
Bill Gurstelle Talks Making (and Makes a Potato Chip Speaker in the Process)
MAKE contributing editor Bill Gurstelle talks to students about the joys of making, invention, at TED-Ed, and in the process, creates a series of audio speakers from found/common materials, including one made out of a potato chip that sounds surprisingly good. Look for lots of awesome Bill Gurstelle projects in our upcoming “Danger Issue,” Volume […]
This Weekend! Edinburgh, Shenzhen, Adelaide & Oslo
It’s a big weekend for Maker Faire around the globe—but it’s only the tip of the maker iceberg! Check out the complete list of Maker Faires coming your way in 2013.
5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Things About Cy Tymony
Los Angeles-based author and inventor Cy Tymony has shared 20 projects on the pages of MAKE, teaching us super sneaky and simple ways to use everyday objects to make things like the Mechanical Image Duplicator, the Mini Foosball Game, and the Origami Flying Disk. He’s also authored 10 volumes of his Sneaky Uses series, starting […]
