How-To: Foldable Paper Heart Garland
Make a string of colorful handmade garland that you can use again and again with this foldable paper heart garland tutorial!
Month: July 2013
Children Get into Carpentry with ToolKid
No longer content to sit on the sidelines, ToolKid lets children get into carpentry themselves.
Crocheted Dog Camera Cozy
Etsy user The Owlies has figured out a way to make a camera lens look like a dog’s snout with this adorable Crochet Dog Camera Cozy.
Maker Camp: Day 5
It’s field trip Friday here at Maker Camp and we’ve a truly great trip planned for our first field trip of Maker Camp 2013. We’ll be heading to San Francisco to visit with Oracle Team USA. Team Oracle makes some of the speediest sailboats in the world, and then races them in America’s Cup, the world’s premier sailing event. Oracle Team USA boats are seven-ton, wing-sail catamarans capable of speeds typically seen only on highways. At 43 knots boatspeed, the boats are capable of sailing their 72-foot length in a single second.
Disneyland and the Coming Maker Singularity
What makes the Maker Movement a disctinct thing is the communication and sharing allowed by the Internet. That makers who were once isolated are now connected, and that the networking allowed by these connections amplifies the creative effect by orders of magnitude. It’s kind of like a Maker Singularity.
Tune In: Maker Camp Field Trip to Oracle Team USA’s Super-Yacht Base Camp
The first awesome week of Maker Camp 2013 is wrapping up, and for it we’re heading on a very exciting field trip tomorrow (Friday, July 12): Oracle Team USA’s base camp, the workshop for the most advanced America’s Cup boat builds yet. We’ll be talking to the engineers and builders and masterminds behind the sail-driven […]
Maker Hangar Episode 2: Motors/Propellers
In Episode 2 of the Maker Hangar series, Lucas Weakley walks us through the motors used in R/C hobby aircraft, the propellers that go with these motors, and why their sizes matter.
