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.
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What Do Jurrassic Park, Twisted Metal, and Waffles Have in Common? Power Wheels Racing
Coming to the 10th Annual Bay Area Maker Faire is the 7th season of Power Wheels racing. The Power Racing Series is a vaguely popular nerd “sport” 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 “enforcement” 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 build a printed circuit board prototype. The guide, written by Spark’s head of supply chain Will Hart, walks readers through PCB fabrication specs, checking for design rule violations and generating layout 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 “seal of approval” before a crowdfunding campaign even begins. “What we saw all the […]
Maker-Friendly Collaboration Site Knowable Shuts Down
Knowable, an ambitious German startup that aimed to connect Makers, inventors, and hardware professionals and help them collaborate and share resources, 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 Höher […]
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 […]
