Need a little help making your stitches pop on screen? Check out these tips for taking beautiful embroidery photos from Niamh at StitchPunk. Even if you don’t have a top-notch camera or a ton of editing know-how, she’ll show you what you need to know to start capturing and sharing the beauty of your projects! […]
Nat Morris is a maker with a penchant for home automation. The latest gadget he made uses an Arduino clone with ethernet capability and some bits and pieces from inkjet printers to feed his dog via Twitter. He even has an IP camera to keep an eye for when the dog seems hungry.
I guess I’ve let my science/crafty geek flag fly highly and proudly enough over the last several years, because I’ve had no fewer than five friends send me links to these amazing Large Hadron Collider Quilts in the last several days. I first saw them over on Boing Boing last week, and fell madly in […]
We’ve already had some great reader suggestions for Natural Materials month. The first that caught my eye this morning is from MAKE pal and Flickr-pool-roundup regular John Honniball, aka anachrocomputer, who directs our attention to the use of natural slate panels as insulators in vintage electrical equipment. Above, a beautiful example from the Canada Science and Technology Museum…
I adore modular design, and this beautiful movable painting wall from AM at Memory Radio is definitely the kind of art display that I can picture in my own home. He has such a great eye for style and color, and I can’t think of a better way to show off his paintings! This is […]
Workshop Weekend is a community-based two-day event that brings together dozens of short, hands-on workshops across a variety of disciplines, from crafting to engineering to gardening, all taught by local, passionate instructors with years of experience in their craft. We’re doing a few things differently from last time. This time, we’re just charging one admission […]
Love this Al Jazeera piece (on their Stream blog) about making. They interview MakerBot CEO Bre Pettis on the show, and the article hits everything from 3D printing to hackerspaces to the Global Village Construction Set to Joey Hudy‘s marshmallow cannon. Check it out! Rise of the Maker Movement
