From traditional crafts to modern crafts, we’re covering news and interesting projects to educate you and keep you inspired. Design trends and pop culture related projects are here to inspire.
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Yapruder writes – “[Here’s a] Lamellaphone using lozenge tin and tines made by trimming a small metal comb from interior electronics of a television set.” – Link. Related DIY musical instruments: Altoid tin pocket thumb piano – Link. FolkUrban Music – DIY instruments – Link. Weird DIY Instruments – Les […]
Looking for something to do with old/broken iMac speakers? Do what Wayne did “Tear out all the guts. Stuff them with miniature christmas lights and let them hang – Link. Related iMacery: iMac MAME cabinet – Link. Steam powered iMac – Link. DIY PC “iMac” – Link. Running the Tablet PC OS on an iMac […]
Check out these weird/clever/odd/interesting uses of everyday objects by Swiss graphic design firm Atelier v – [via] – Link.
These are awesome. This kid asked for circuit board knee patches, and circuit board knee patches he got… here’s how they were made – [via] Link.
Our friends at the National Assocation of Manufacturers posted up a couple “How beer is made” videos, one you can follow along and do yourself from Sam Adams and the other, from Anheuser-Busch [via] – homebrew & Bud. Related: Open source beer – Link. “Mr. Beer” DIY Brewing Kit – $27 shipped – Link. Make […]
Flickr has just recently announced Moo cards, mini calling cards that display any photos of your choice in your flickr account. Thank you Gordon McLean who points us to meish.org, where Meg shows us how to make cool looking photo magnets in this awesome tutorial. Link.
Steph shares with us her cool tutorial on how to sew cool circuit board knee patches which she did for her son Ford. Steph says, “All this deconstruction has led to a massive reconstruction project of knee-patching, due to all the time Ford spends on the floor laboring over his electronic hardware. Of all designing […]
