UK-based textile designer Claire-Anne O’Brien loves playing with the textural elements of knitting stitches. Here, she’s used a combination of hand and machine knitting to create dramatically oversized patterns as upholstery. On her website, you can also see interesting examples of her Modular Stitch concept, which plays on the most basic element of knitting – […]
Next week, we’ll be launching a series of 15 Weekend Projects, brought to you by RadioShack’s The Great Create. These step-by-step electronics how-tos will appear as a special section on Make: Projects, on a custom MAKE Facebook subpage, and we’ll be published a special weekly newsletter to support the program. The weekly Weekend Projects newsletter […]
I love these photos of DIY spongeballs on Aesthetic Outburst! We posted a spongeball tutorial here back in 2008, but I figured this summer is hot enough to require a reminder!
…recreating the mammoth by starting with an elephant’s genome and changing it at the 400,000 sites at which elephant DNA differs from that of the mammoth.
Back in 2009, Anna Hrachovec figured out how to knit a tiny brain. That little project touched off a two-year Tiny Challenge: Anna created a new tiny design every weekday for the first month, and then continued with a new design each week after that. As of today, she’s still challenging herself to come up […]
I first wanted to call this post “When ‘Bots Attack” or something similarly FOX-esque, but couldn’t bring myself to do it. There’s been plenty of alarmism about robots recently, and swarming robots are particularly juicy targets for people looking to stir up controversy since there seems to be something particularly loathsome and/or frightening to us about swarming creatures in general.
Pleats created in pieces of fabric to create geometric patterns are known as Shadowfolds. Here’s how to fold your own.
