How-To: Create a Weathered Paint Effect
Want to give newer decor pieces some antique-inspired warmth and charm? Check out this great tutorial for creating a weathered paint effect!
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Making a Pump Track
Riding a pump track is kind of like riding a roller coaster track. They are really, really fun to ride. And there’s a whole scene of makers piling and packing and wetting dirt all for the sake of hours of pedal fun.
World Maker Faire New York: Town Hall, Call for Makers, and More!
Attention NY makers! Join us this Thursday for our first Town Hall in Brooklyn & apply now before the Call for Makers ends later this month.
How-To: Pin Poked Lamp Shade Illustration
Add some drama to your lamp shade by simply poking some holes in it with this clever tutorial from Amazing Interior Design.
How-To: Make Glitch Selfies With Your Webcam
If you like taking selfies that render your likeness completely unrecognizable, then you may be just the assimilationist contrarian to make a hypnotically glitchy selfie with this experimental project
Intel Galileo presents “Pigeon Sim” at Maker Faire Paris
In a short interview, Greg Jackson from the ICRI (Intel Collaborative Research Institute) introduced us to “Pigeon sim”, an open-source software that is using the motion sensing technology of Kinect®. The software also works with the Leap Motion device (smaller Kinect) and Google earth enhanced with real-time data. Pigeon Sim is a project developed by the ICRI. Initially […]
Yarn Bowl
How do you try out some 3D printing if you don’t have a 3D printer? Well, you could build up sculptures with a hot glue gun, kind of the same idea behind the crowdfunding hit 3Doodler. But that’s stinky and messy, and you might get burnt. Carla Diana had the idea to make a bowl out […]