Vanessa of Little Big Girl Studio shares her tutorial for creating a stylish bag that uses plastic u-shaped handles that are readily available at your local craft store. I like that she shares not only the pattern for this particular great bag, but also includes pictures of other bags in which she’s used the u-shaped […]
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Are you a hackerspace member with an event you’d like to publicize? Send it to johnb@makezine.com or tweet me at @johnbaichtal and I’ll post it. Also feel free to subscribe to my hackerspaces Twitter list. Hackerspace Happenings runs weekly(ish) Tuesday(i)s(h). i3 Detroit Halloween Party We’ll have some phat beats dropping and mad costumes. We’ll also […]
Continue ReadingThe week before Halloween is basically the proverbial Christmas morning of CRAFT blogging because every day the internet gives me the gift of something amazing that someone made themselves at home, and Tyler Card‘s homemade Nikon camera costume is no exception to this flimsy metaphor! For Halloween 2011, I made a fully-fuctional camera costume. It […]
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This detailed post from modeling forum member Panzerpaul nicely shows off the skill and hard work that went into creating his radio-controlled replica of a WWII-era German tank destroyer commonly called a Hetzer. To house the R/C electronics and other guts, the hull has to be hollow.
Continue ReadingLast week, Patricia Zapata of A Little Hut put out a call for suggestions on what she should make with a left over cardboard ring from a roll of painter’s tape. She’s followed up with her beautiful and clever project, and has included a how-to so you can make your own. See how it came […]
Continue ReadingDownriver Detroit native Anthony Reale shows us around the Downriver area, which is a major source of inspiration for his art and engineering projects. His most recent endeavor is an innovative hydrokinetic turbine system called Strait Power, which looks towards a brighter, and greener, future for Detroit.
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Combining a double pendulum, spray paint, and motorized wheels, So Kanno and Takahiro Yamaguchi created a Senseless Drawing Bot, which chaotically paints a gallery wall. See it in action below: [via Creative Applications] UPDATE: Check out this blog, where the artists documented the construction and testing of The Senseless Drawing Bot. More: Pendulum Pr0n Weekend […]
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