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.
Faythe Levine and Micaela O’Herlihy are making a documentary about the new wave of craft. To support their efforts they need donations and also are selling their spiffy looking t-shirts up on etsy. Everyone who supports their indie film through donations or sales will have their name in the credits of their movie. From the […]
Jessica writes – “SheekGeek sells a robotic kit that can be built entirely using a plug and play mentality. No soldering is required! Now “Makers” too young to solder can build their very own light following robots!” – Link. Related: MAKE 06, robotics issue – Link. Tons of robotics projects – Link.
MAKE pal BF5man sent in this DIY multi-player chess game that you can make yourself, anyone play it? – “Duchess is a board game similar to Chess but which is played by two teams of two or three people. The game provides an opportunity for Chess enthusiasts and novices alike to develop new skills in […]
Rachel sent in the simplest way to cut down the glare when you need to use your laptop outside – “How to make your own really cheap (or free) laptop sun shade. This is a tutorial (pretty self-explanatory though) that I made for solving the age-old problem (for me at least) of trying to be […]
Justin writes – “Here’s how to build a tensegrity coffee table. I was searching for pvc furniture pipe and luckily stumbled across this site.” – Link. Related: Building Tensegrity Models – Make a “needle tower” sculpture from dowels and elastic cord that seems to defy the laws of physics. MAKE 06 – Page 100.
Stickman has a pretty spiffy homemade LEGO flash drive – “It uses a 128MB Dick Smith electronics USB flash drive. The casing of the DSE drive was easy to remove and from there it was a matter of resizing the circuit board (it was slightly too large to fit inside a 2×4 Lego brick) by […]
Plans from 1965 for making a kid sized earth mover – “These plans are for a kid’s sandbox backhoe plans. Half-pint sidewalk superintendents will go ape for this boy-size, rugged, easy-to-build digger. A healthy lad can do wonderful things with a little loose dirt but a boy with his own backhoe is an earth-moving hero. […]
