DIYAbilities Teaches Maker Skills and Adaptive Technology
John Schimmel and Holly Cohen talk about New York City organization DIYability, which offers maker workshops focusing on tool use, collaboration, and assistive technology for disabled kids.
Year: 2013
How-To: Hexie Holiday Ornament
Pull out those festive fat quarters, grab a mug of hot cocoa, and settle in for an evening of English paper piecing goodness with this hexie holiday ornament tutorial!
How-To: Grown-Up Hot Cocoa Gift
When you can’t whip up a mug of grown-up hot chocolate to share with a friend, then this grown-up hot cocoa gift idea from GOODNYOU? is certainly the next best thing.
Skill Builder: Make Your Own Snap Together Electrical Connectors
It’s easy enough to standardize the physical connectors in a project (e.g. build your whole robot with just one or two sizes of nut/bolt holding it together). But what about power and electrical connections?
How-To: Knitted Hat Cake and Matching Mittens
Have your knitted hat and mittens and eat them too (in cake form) with these quirky tutorials from The Cake Girls for making a knitted hat cake along with a pair of matching mittens cookies.
CRAFT Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
Need some crafty inspiration? Here are some of the cool things we saw in the CRAFT Flickr Pool this week!
RasPi and Lego Robot Reads a Kindle Aloud
Dexter Industries, maker of the BrickPi shield for the Raspberry Pi, put the shield to test in this sweet Kindle-reading Lego robot.
