The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for making furniture and home decor for every room in the house, including the garage.
Instructables user Random_Canadian (a.k.a. Gavin Wolchina of Calgary, AB) built this giant and fully functional puzzle cube that also serves as Gavin’s coffee table. It’s 27″ across, weighs less than 30 pounds and took one month to build.
Ray Alderman’s Manikin Figure Lamp with iPad 01 made a nice splash when we featured it in the MAKE Flickr pool roundup about a month ago, and Ray (aka Whamodyne) just wrote in to let us know that he’s recently posted a cool Instructable about how to make your own.
MAKE alum Becky Stern’s first project in her new job at adafruit is a video about how to add EL accent wire to your sofa. Check it out!
Detailed, hands-on how-to info on a very rich manufacturing process that is rarely attempted by DIYers. Instructables user pseaton covers the process of designing and building your own molded plywood forms all the way from initial design considerations, through mold construction and veneer pre-treatment, to actually laying up the veneers and cleaning up the finished […]
MAKE’s Paul Spinrad reports from last night’s Pecha Kucha event in San Francisco.
We’ve covered North Carolina maker Scott Freeland‘s work before. His retro-futuristic hand-cast urethane iRetrophone docs are streamlined and functional with a touch of old world craftsmanship and polish. If you don’t have the counter space for the traditional tabletop model, you might find the wall mount version a more convenient option. [via iPhone Savior]
Neat idea from NY architect John Locke, who designed this slot-together plywood shelf unit to hang over the standard public telephone kiosk without fasteners or other alterations to the existing public property. The phone, if present, can still be used normally. So far, John has tested two prototypes, and in both cases passers-by were confused […]
