Make: Live ep16 preview
The next episode of Make: Live is from World Maker Faire New York. Go to https://makezine.com/live to watch the show live on Friday, September 16th, 2011 at 5pm ET / 2pm PT
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Enhanced Flashlight Tag on Make: Live ep18
Michael Colombo (in collaboration with Eszter Ozsvald) came up with a new variation on flashlight tag that uses retroreflective letters on armbands. Find out about Mike’s experience running the game (and coming up with new ones) with some summer campers. This is an archived clip from Make: Live, which was originally broadcasted on 10/12/11. Go to https://makezine.com/live/ for information about the show, chat transcripts, and details on the next show.
5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Things About Karen Le Page
If I had an epic dinner for wonderful crafty folks, Karen Le Page would definitely be on the guest list. A talented seamstress and pattern maker here in Northville, Mich., Karen’s work can be seen on cool-looking kids and on local book store shelves all over town. Get to know a little bit more about […]
Let The Smoke Out With This Merit Badge
Adafuit has a new product, a “magic smoke” badge for those of us who have fried a component — so basically, anyone who has tinkered with electronics. Sometimes you need celebrate mistakes. Adafruit offers a fun and exciting “badges” of achievement for electronics, science and engineering. We believe everyone should be able to be rewarded […]
Ultra High Performance Double Pendulum
We covered Flickr user yamamo2’s (and his father’s) first high-performance double pendulum build back in 2009. The first version would swing for about 10 minutes, without added energy, after being started. The latest version swings for fully twice that, as the embedded video—all twenty-two minutes of it—thoroughly demonstrates. I haven’t seen any info about the design changes required to achieve this level of performance, unfortunately.
A Sewing Weekend with Designer Heather Ross
Lotta Jansdotter’s Printing Workshop, Vera in the pool, Raven and Anna Maria Horner contemplate a zipper I just signed up for Heather Ross’s Sewing Workshop January 27-29 at the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs – this means two glorious days of sewing labs, demonstrations, inspiration, and nothing but time to actually start and finish a […]
Felt Flower Gift Toppers
Infarrantly Creative offers a quick and easy how-to on felt flowers. They show them adorning a bag or worn as a pin, but I think these would make great gift toppers!