Jote of Bless Her Heart posted about these amazing-looking ginger cream cookies. Last month we ran away to the beach with one of my besties and her family for a weekend. While the kids were playing cards she whipped out a bag of cookies that her mother had made for them. They were dark and […]
Make: Live episode 12 is all about robots, celebrating the release of MAKE v27. Our guests Simone Davalos, Andrew Terranova, and Tim Laursen brought the house down! Tim Laursen performs in-studio with his incredible Robot Drummers, and Andrew Terranova from Let’s Make Robots shows off his impressive collection of homemade bots. Catch up on video […]
Bottlecaps are always a good creative medium, and I love how Jenny Chang has taken advantage of their shape to create these garden flower stakes. All you need, besides the caps, are a tin can lid, a chopstick, and some epoxy. Take a look at her how-to, over at A Bird in the Hand Art.
Does robot month have you itching to start building? Maker Bundle #1 from the Maker Shed will have you bot building in no time! This bundle includes the electronic parts to build four robots; Mousy the Junkbot, Trimet, Solarroller, and Beetlebot.
I’m not much of a scrapbooker, but this mini album made out of cardboard boxes by Bursts of Creativity really caught my eye. I can totally see myself making something like this out of all of the odds and ends that I collect while traveling, then can’t quite seem to throw away once I’m back […]
“Acoustic metamaterial” may sound exotic, but researchers in France have managed to assemble one from a few multipacks of cola cans. Arranged in a grid, the drinks cans act as a superlens for sound, focusing acoustic waves into much smaller regions than their metre-long wavelengths typically allow. The cans act as resonators, directing the volume […]
Photo: Val Head Photo: Ed The LEDFLoWER Project is on a mission to plant LED Flowers all over the world! Each participant was mailed a “top secret” kit with parts and instructions for assembly. Everyone assembled their own LEDflower and decided where to plant it. The only requirement was a photo and a tweet to […]
