Lately I’ve taken to finding morals in the stuff I post. Last time it was radically limiting your options to inspire more creative thinking. Today, I think, the lesson of this simple-but-striking assemblage is about paying close attention to your starting material. What features does it already have, when you walk up on it, that you can exploit?
I met Luke Haynes this week at Etsy Labs for Brett Bara’s Sewing in a Straight Line book signing. While it was immediately obvious that he was a quilter—the expertly appliqued “LUKE” down the front of his shirt gave him away—I really wasn’t prepared for the subjects of his quilts (Obama, 3D hammers, french fries). […]
Remember the new Panavise handle that resulted from Lee C’s wooden crank modification? It hasn’t been released for sale yet but we have them in the Maker Shed! As a way to say “thank you” to the MAKE community, Panavise has given us the handles in advance so that we can give them to you. For a limited time, with the purchase of every Panavise Jr. Model 201 we are including the #239 Speed Control Handle absolutely free!
Angela of Wired.com points us to this gorgeously designed picture book rendition of David Bowie’s Space Oddity song, created by illustrator Andrew Kolb. The David Bowie song “Space Oddity” probably shouldn’t have been made into a children’s book: The haunting 1969 track about an astronaut who loses contact with Earth to float around the universe […]
Adam Meyer of Bildr created a tutorial on connecting thermal printers to Arduinos: Outputting data can be extremely useful, and typically when we look at doing this, it is either to the Arduino’s serial terminal, or to some sort of display. But what about making physical copies of the data? So a few months back, […]
Prepare to have your mind blown by this irrefutable evidence of the utter lack of craft projects on the Internets in the late 90s! I recently came across this amazing article by Susan Lazear called, “The World On-line for Knitters,” from a 1997 issue of Fashion Knitting Magazine. It basically explains exactly what the Internet […]
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