Images From a Visit to IYRS: A Trades & Technology School in Newport, RI
Check out these photos from IYRS, a trade and technology school in Newport, RI that blends traditional wooden boatbuilding with modern making techniques.
Month: April 2013
Maker Faire Detroit Call for Makers Now Open
Calling all Midwest makers! The fourth annual Maker Faire Detroit is taking place this summer, on July 27 and 28, at The Henry Ford. The Call for Makers is open now through June 7th. Got a great project you want to share with the maker community? Get in your application today and come join the […]
Draft-Dodging Hyena
MAKE’s photo editor, Gregory Hayes, made this fantastic draft-dodging hyena out of a pair of his destroyed work jeans, to keep the draft from creeping in under the door of his friend Lex’s new house.
How to Make Pigment Posters
Oh Design Sponge, we love you. We love you for projects like this gorgeous tutorial showing us how to make Holi-inspired pigment posters.
How-To: Bicycle Wheel Clock
Love bikes and vintage yardsticks? You won’t want to miss this awesome bicycle wheel clock tutorial!
Math Monday: Sonobe Some More
For the Museum of Mathematics Last column, we saw some of the basics of modular origami with the Sonobe unit. Today’s post is mostly a gallery of a few of the limitless cool things you can do with this unit. But first, a note about chirality. A three-dimensional object is chiral if it cannot be […]
The Aesthetics of Mechanical Power
James Capper is a London-based artist and maker who builds powerful hydraulic machines. Inspired by engineering marvels of years past, a survey of his mechanical sculptures are on view at Yorkshire Sculpture Park for the next two weeks.
