How-To: Pintuck Pillows
These handmade throw pillows definitely look impressive, but they’re much easier to make than you’d think!
Month: May 2013
Annika O’Brien Plays with Giant Robots
Annika O’Brien works full time making cool robots. She also founded the popular LA Robotics Club, which has over 1,200 members including high school students, hobbyists and professionals who share an interest in building robots. The club meets in real space to work on projects and participate in presentations, as well as holding classes as part of their community outreach to under-served teens.
Annika’s boundless enthusiasm and outspoken demeanor jumped right through the screen at me as we met via video chat to discuss her experience on SyFy’s ground breaking show, Robot Combat League, where teams control giant humanoid robots duking it out in an arena.
“It’s like WWE wrestling with robots. It was a concept that no one had actually done before,” she said. “It was a helluva lot of fun.”
How-To: Wallpaper Your Fridge
Aunt Peaches is always coming up with interesting and colorful DIYs, but this refrigerator wallpapering tutorial just might be my favorite yet!
The Othermill, a Desktop Milling Machine with Snap Fit Joints
Today Otherfab announced a Kickstarter for the Othermill, a unique desktop milling machine. The Othermill is an evolution of the MTM Snap milling machine developed by Otherfab’s Jonathan Ward over the past few years. Otherfab is a small group of engineers and designers within Otherlab, and Jonathan was formerly at the Center for Bits and Atoms. The Othermill comes out of the Fab Lab ecosystem, and is comparable to the Roland Modela in that paradigm.
DIY Hacks & How To’s: Get Emergency Power from a Phone Line
What do you do if the power is out, but you need to charge your cell phone to make an emergency phone call? In this episode of DIY Hacks & How To’s, Jason Poel Smith shows you how to tap the power flowing from your phone line.
Flashback: Cold Brew Coffee with Reusable Coffee Bag
In this exclusive tutorial, CRAFT writer Haley Pierson-Cox will show you how to make your own reusable drawstring coffee bag, then she’ll walk you through the basics of cold brew.
Things from Rings
From the Museum of Mathematics The Math Mondays Experimental Making Labs recently received numerous binder rings in its Incoming Raw Materials box. You know — the little circles that clip closed, used to hold a sheaf of hole-punched paper together.ย According to the donor: “Here’s an office supply item that you’ve never used on Math […]
