In honor of Design & Photography month, I thought I’d share a wonderful user-contributed photoblog, Dear Photograph. The idea is simple — “take a picture of a picture from the past in the present”. Ha! OK, that may sound complicated, but it’s easy to see what 22-year-old DP creator, Taylor Jones, is talking about. [See […]
Gordon McComb is helping us out on the site this month in support of the release of MAKE Volume 27, our latest robotics issue, and for our monthly Robotics theme here online. Gordon has also just release the fourth edition of his groundbreaking book, Robot Builder’s Bonanza. The first edition of this book was released in 1987 and pretty much launched the hobby robotics field. This was the book that got me into robotics, which lead me into electronics (and Forrest Mims’ book), hardware hacking, and most of my high-tech making interests.
Salon.com has a post up from Imprint, detailing some of the outstanding pieces in the Morgan Library and Museum’s current show, “Lists: To-dos, Illustrated Inventories, Collected Thoughts, and Other Artists’ Enumerations.” I will confess to being a compulsive note scribbler. Sometimes they help me stay organized and on track, but mostly they just serve as […]
We’ve talked about how to make sunprints on paper here before. But this sunprint wedding cake from Once Wed is absolutely stunning. To be fair, though, it’s not an actual sunprint – the chemicals involved would of course be inedible. Instead, it’s blue coloring airbrushed over foliage for the same effect. Could you imagine a […]
I was honored when Susan Beal generously gave me a Quilts for Quake Survivors Suprise Bag at Maker Faire Bay Area. The bags are just one of the way the group has been raising money this year. I’ve been working on mine and just finished it this weekend, pictured above. If you’d like to pick […]
Founded in 1987 in Rocklin, California, Parallax, Inc. manufactures the famous BASIC Stamp microcontroller. The Stamp has been popular among electronics hobbyists since the early 1990s, thanks to such user-friendly features as an embedded BASIC interpreter.
Terrarium Craft is a collection of 50 unusual terrarium projects using creative embellishments. As a special treat, Timber Press has given us a PDF excerpt you can download and use to make (and care for) this beautiful Golden Spiral Terrarium. Download the Project PDF Right click to save the PDF to your desktop. Directions on […]
