How-To: Tequila Bottle Hummingbird Feeder
Turn pretty glass bottles into gorgeous garden-ready gifts for your feathered friends with this tequila bottle hummingbird feeder tutorial!
Month: June 2014
Making Fun: Kid’s Room Spacecraft
I built a spaceship for my four-year-old’s room. It has a control panel full of interesting displays and whiz-bang space sounds. A joystick controls lights and sounds for the engine and thrusters. The payload bay has a motorized hatch and and contains a robot arm for deploying payloads like toy satellites. Headsets provide an audio link between the spacecraft and the Mission Control desk in the other son’s room.
Unbelievable Bottled Sand Art from the 1800s
Artist Andrew Clemens unbelievable sand art still manages to amaze viewers well over 100 years after his death in 1894.
Maker Pro Newsletter – Other Machine, 3D Printing in Asia, Google I/O
“In the future, every shoe will be ‘size me.’” From the editors of MAKE, the Maker Pro Newsletter is about the impact of makers on business and technology. Our coverage includes hardware startups, new products, incubators, and innovators, along with technology and market trends.ย ย Please send items to us atย ย makerpro@makermedia.com. Are you a Maker Pro? We’re […]
Heather Knight is a Missionary for Social Robotics
Social roboticist Heather Knight spreads the good word of human-cyborg relations.
Surreal Illustrations of Children Playing in Felt and Paper Collages
Amazing illustrations of children playing, made from the materials that children tend to play with when they make their own illustrations.
EL Panels And Leather: Space Invader Cuff
In a brilliant combination of old craftsamnship and new technology, Spencer shows off some leather cufflinks that have embedded EL panels. Spencer had a friend with a laser cutter that was going fairly unused. He really wanted to play with cutting leather on it, so this project was born. He started by drawing up the […]
