Enter the MAKE Halloween Contest – Deadline Today!
There are a bunch of great projects in our Halloween contest on Make: Projects, but yours is still missing! Enter your Halloween projects today by 11:59pm PT to enter to win great prizes.
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Cake Embroidery With Sprinkles
As soon as I saw this picture over on Pinterest, I immediately recognized the pattern as one of Carina’s. Instead of floss stitches on fabric, though, this design was executed using sprinkles on the frosting of a cake. Stephanie of Clockwork Lemon used one of Carina’s embroidery patterns as inspiration for the delicate placement of […]
How-To: Green Lantern. Literally.
No power rings are involved, here, just boric acid, methanol, and a homemade spirit lamp. It’s all nicely explained by Instructables user The Green Gentleman.
Beaker Zippered Pouch
Every once in a while, I see a craft that makes my inner 10-year-old squeal, “Ooh, that’s COOL!” and this reverse appliquรฉd zippered beaker pouch from Cation Designs is definitely speaking to my younger science geek self! My favorite part of the post: though the pouch isn’t really meant to hold actual beakers, she still […]
New in the Maker Shed: TTL Serial JPEG Camera with NTSC Video
This new camera, now available in the Maker Shed, can be a great addition to your project. It was designed to be used in security systems and does two main things – it outputs NTSC video and can take snapshots of that video and transmit them over the TTL serial link. You can snap pictures at 640×480, 320×240 or 160×120 and they are pre-compressed into JPEG images which makes them nice, small and easy to store on an SD card.
“This Took Forever” Labels From Sublime Stitching
I still have a handful of my grandmother’s “Made For You With Love by Mary” labels that she would put in clothes she made for my mom and her siblings. They are sweet and all, but I can see how the message of how much time and effort went in to making the item is […]
Make: Live’s Ultimate Kit Episode (preview video)
Join us Wednesday evening for the next episode of Make: Live, our streaming show and tell! This episode is our Ultimate Kit Episode, in honor of the new Special Issue of MAKE, The Ultimate Kit Guide. Make: Live 20 – Ultimate Kit Episode Wednesday November 9th, 9pm ET/6pm PT Watch at makezine.com/live or on UStream […]
