That’s A Wrap! Washi Tape and Craft Stick Frames
Here’s super simple photo frame craft to keep the kids occupied this Easter weekend.
Year: 2015
What Do Jurrassic Park, Twisted Metal, and Waffles Have in Common? Power Wheels Racing
Coming to theย 10th Annual Bay Area Maker Faire isย the 7th season of Power Wheels racing. The Powerย Racing Series is a vaguely popular nerd โsportโ that mods simple toy store ride-on plastic cars and converts them into $500 25mph electric racing machines. The series’ main take home is the โenforcementโ of a tiny budget with sort […]
Hardware Development: Spark Shows How to Make a Prototype PCB
Prototype 2 Production, a blog by the Spark team about bringing products to market, published the first of a three-part series this week on how to buildย a printed circuit board prototype. The guide, written by Spark’s head of supply chainย Will Hart, walks readers through PCB fabrication specs, checkingย for design rule violations and generating layoutย files. Fabrication […]
Dragon Innovation Announces “Seal of Approval” Program for Crowdfunding Hopefuls
Dragon Innovation, which has worked with the wildly successful businesses Pebble, Coolest Cooler, and BlueSmart to estimate the actual costs of bringing their crowdfunded products to market, is expanding its offerings with Dragon Certified, a program to give companies a financial โseal of approvalโ before a crowdfunding campaign even begins. โWhat we saw all the […]
Maker-Friendly Collaboration Site Knowable Shuts Down
Knowable, an ambitious German startupย that aimed to connect Makers, inventors, and hardware professionals and help them collaborate and share resources,ย announced this week that it was shutting down after three years. “Unfortunately neither [social network component] Polymer nor Knowable saw the traction that was necessary to support a venture funded business model,” wrote creators Simon Hรถher […]
DIY Hatching Chick Deviled Eggs
Give your Easter guests a tasty, little surprise with these endearingly unexpected DIY hatching chick deviled eggs from POPSUGAR!
DIY Gems: Faux Quartz Crystal Jewelry
Love the look of giant stones in jewelry, but feel weighed down whenever you wear them? This faux quartz crystal jewelry tutorial is the perfect lightweight solution for those too-heavy gems! Pretty neat, right? These fabulous DIY jewelry pieces look just like the real thing, but the sparkling quartz crystals are actually resin instead of […]
