Lamps made from slides and film
Artist and MAKE subscriber Michael Marcovici sent us the link to these amazing lamps he made out of mounted slides and reels of film. While you’re at his site, check out his other amazing work. Lights
Furniture & Lighting
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for making furniture and home decor for every room in the house, including the garage.
Toolbox: Portable lighting
A lot of what makes a successful DIY build is not in the gory details of build itself, it’s in everything that surrounds it: the working environment, the available tools, the preparation done beforehand, the patience and working methods of the builder, etc. Soldering is a good example. Successful soldering is not so much about […]
DIY cable light connectors
MAKE contributor Bill Bumgarner has posted another great home project, and it’s chock full of fun things like a tap & die, drill press, and cross-sliding vise (and lasers): While making my own low voltage cable light fixtures, I searched high and low for a little piece of hardware that would elegantly connect between the […]
DIY Couch
Project log of a homemade couch with a lot of storage-space, moving back and integrated additional seats…
Laser-cut paper doll’s furniture
Matt Cottam wrote in with this cool project he made for Papercamp. He started with patterns from The American Girl’s Home Book of Work And Play by Helen Campbell (1890) and cut them on a laser cutter on 300gsm paper. Matt brought the images into Illustrator, and traced their outlines with the pen tool. To […]
Homemade Japanese RV
MAKE subscriber Mike Prevette writes in about this incredible homemade Japanese RV. From the site: Ok, this car isn’t nostalgic (or even a car, really), but the idea is timeless. After graduating high school, three Japanese buddies decided to follow their dream of a year-long cross-country road trip, from the northeastern island of Hokkaido to […]
A river of light illuminates from above
“HYPERION_Fragment” by Rosalie is a light sculpture installed at the ZKM museum in Karlsruhe, Germany consisting of 3,150 LEDs that are controlled to display a “river of light” across several distinct color sequences. The project spreads out over an area of 9.25 x 27 meters, so its reach is definitely intimidating. Check out the video […]
