I am a big fan of Brett Bara’s colorful and fun Jello molds. I swear, this is the year I will attempt to make one of the layered delicacies for a party. Seeing this Halloween version she made, complete with spiders embedded in it, makes me want to tackle the project even more. Talk about […]
Tonight! The next episode of Make: Live, our streaming show and tell, is celebrating MAKE v28, all about toys & games you can make yourself. David Harris will show us his RFID teddy bear, and Beatjazz pioneer Onyx Ashanti will perform and talk with us about is wireless electronic controllers for music performance. Our intern, Michael Colombo, will also show us his variation on flashlight tag. Don’t miss it!
Catering to Lego fans who can’t find the parts they want from the company (mostly minifig accessories, heavily weighted toward weaponry) BrickForge is a company which designs and molds these elements and sells them on the internet and at Lego conventions. Recently I interviewed BrickForge owner Kyle “Armothe” Peterson about what it was like to […]
I’m a big fan of Don Porcella‘s sculptures. Not only are they humorous and satirical, but they are made from one of the greatest materials of all time: pipe cleaners (or chenille stems if you wanna be fancy). His solo exhibition, called “Everything and Nothing at All,” is currently on display at Spattered Columns Exhibition […]
Freezer paper stenciling is one of the easiest, most inexpensive projects that really packs a punch in the satisfaction department. It’s a great “gateway craft” for folks who don’t think they have a crafty bone in them, and it’s highly addictive. This tutorial and template from Christie of A Lemon Squeezy Home is a great […]
The last time I was excited about a belt buckle, I had found one with old-timey CB radio lingo embossed on the front. Fast-forward a few years and now you’re able to let everybody know your 10-4 with this sci-fi accented iPhone 4 case that doubles as a belt buckle.
I’m a minimalist by nature, which is what attracted me to this “no-case” from My Open PC in the first place. I have often toyed with the idea of designing something similar, myself – just a couple of panels with the bare-minimum cutouts to meet the ATX specification. While, over the long run, I think there are good reasons to keep a PC’s guts inside a hard case, in the short term, an open fixture like this has a lot to recommend it, for instance as a test fixture for experimenting with different hardware configurations.
