Really wonderful community video collaboration from the chem-hackers of sciencemadness.org, including MAKE pal and guest blogger Hayden Parker. Over about fourteen minutes, we are treated to a bench-side view of two dozen energetic reactions that share an interesting property: reagents that, on mixing, spontaneously burst into flame.
Angel from Fleece Fun shared her tutorial for this gorgeous bow infinity wrap on Fave Crafts today. It’s such a lovely and classic statement piece, that it makes me want to plan a holiday party just so I’ll have a good excuse to wear it!
MakeDo, now available in the Maker Shed, is a unique set of reusable connectors for creating things from the stuff around you. Reuse items like cardboard, plastic and fabric to create structures, costumes, furniture, and decorations. When you are done, just pull your creation apart and reuse the connectors to make something else.
This summer, my sister and I visited a great used office furniture store together, and I found a beautiful 80s Steelcase chair that had me swooning. I was a little intimidated, though, at the prospect of reupholstering it and ended up passing on it. Seeing this great makeover from Jessica of How About Orange has […]
Pittsburgh hackerspace HackPGH used leftover helium from their LEAD Balloon project to facilitate another project: the Aerial Ping Pong Drop. They filled biodegradable party balloons and launched origami butterflies and ping pong balls into the atmosphere. What for, you ask? They used Egg-Bots to write a URL on each ball, so that when it was […]
I met Ashley Gerst over the weekend at Maker Faire NYC and, when she told me that she’d made the unique shrimp cocktail scarf that she was wearing, I said, “Ok, I’m going to post that on the CRAFT blog next week,” and well, here we are. The images above are actually of a “Shrimp […]
Mollie at Wild Olive is celebrating coffee this week with all kinds of brew-related projects and inspiration. She’s offering up a set of very fun and free coffee embroidery patterns as part of the celebration. My personal favorite design is the commercial coffee pot. It makes me think of Flo on Alice, which I’m hoping […]
