How-To: Book Stack Pendant
Inspired by a smart but expensive (around $165) necklace from Anthropologie, Malmow from Craftster created this similar book stack pendant for mere dollars using scraps of leather and cut-up book pages. [via Geek Crafts]
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Best of MAKE: Top 10 Hackerspace Posts
2011 was an important year for hackerspaces, with many new spaces being founded and existing spaces growing in membership and in capabilities. The MAKE blog covered this important part of the maker scene throughout the year. Here were some of our best posts. #10 Store Front Music: The DIY Edition — Store Front Music is […]
Tonight! Best of Make: Live Season One
It’s tonight! Make: Live‘s Best of 2011 show looks back at our favorite episodes from the very first season. Go behind the scenes with us for some of our most memorable moments– from goofs and gaffes to last minute surprises and change ups. And don’t miss the best of robots, blinky LEDs, fires & explosions, electronics and giant mobile contraptions. It’s a whole year of making condensed to 30 minutes of nonstop unbridled joy– don’t miss it!
Recipe: French 75
For those of you on the look for delicious cocktail recipes for New Year’s Eve, check out this beautiful how-to from Tracy of Shutterbean. She documents each step of the cocktail creation. Try this one out, it’s one of my favorites!
Best of CRAFT 2011: Sewing Projects
I’m not happy unless I’m walking around with bits of thread stuck to my clothes and a seam ripper sticking out of my back pocket. If you’re a confirmed sewing nerd too, then this best-of is for you! Here, in no specific order, are 10 of my favorite sewing projects that showed up on CRAFT […]
Best of MAKE: Maker Shed Top 10
It’s been a big year here at the Maker Shed. This has been our best year to date and we have shipped around 30,000 orders to makers all over the world! Ever wonder what our top products are? Below are the Top 10 items shipped from the Maker Shed in 2011.
Transforming Gingerbread House
Behold “gingerbreadtron, ” the transforming gingerbread house by Brian Hall! It’s a robot in disguise – as a gingerbread house. This project was a fun thing to make over the holidays with some servo motors, glue and some cardboard. [via buzzfeed]