Jamie of Magic Bean Buyer on Etsy hand painted these rad Super Mario Brothers Shoes. These would have been the perfect pair of shoes for the bride in the Super Mario wedding Lish featured recently. [via @bonniegrrl] More: Super Mario Sweater How-To: Super Mario Papercraft Magnetic Board uper Mario Retro Room uper Mario Fingernails uper […]
Jeffrey Lipton of Fab@Home demonstrates their 3D printing system at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011. This open source personal manufacturing machine can print with many different materials from plastic to cookie dough. When used in a classroom, Fab@Home furthers STEM education by making students comfortable with the software, hardware, fabrication, and materials.
Matt @ MAKE writes: Candy Corn is a long-time staple of Halloween candy. In fact, the sweet treat has been around since the 1880s. In the video above, The Harvard Crimson tests a recipe from The Field Guide to Candy by Anita Chu. Watch to learn how to whip up your own batch of kernels […]
My favorite interaction was a youngster approaching Jesse Hemminger’s Sauerkraut Powered Robot display at the Pittsburgh Mini Maker Faire, getting a whiff, throwing his hand up to cover his mouth and then ran off instantly.
As I predicted, the third week of October has brought with it the MAKE Flickr pool’s first Jack-o’-lantern of 2011โa leering, laser-cut, LED-lit orange from Hacked Gadgets blogger Alan Parekh. I’m also pretty stoked about the bolt-shouldered, needle-felted frog from FeltedChicken (whose koi I featured last Monday), and the latest amazing steampunkery from gogglerman.
The Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh is the host for today’s mini Maker Faire. There are makers from HackPGH, CMU, Makers Alliance in Cleveland, and many local makers. There are all kind of robots, sound machines, 3D printers, all in Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.
Here are some cool things we saw in the CRAFT Flickr Pool this week: Primitive Cat Doll in a Santa Hat, by oldworldprimitives luie-luie mice doll, by luie-luie Reversible Cat—Good Kitty Side and Reversible Cat—Bad Kitty Side, by caffaknitted packaging, by cupcakes for clara yeti, by lindsay harmony
