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Family Summer Center, Part Two: Family Calendar By Bernadette Noll and Kathie Sever Future Craft Collective Hopefully you’ve completed, or at least seen, last week’s project of the Family Intentions and Inspirations Banner. While you can certainly complete the calendar portion on its own, we really like the way the two pieces interact to make […]
Moda Bake Shop shows you how to use a honey bun and make this fabric patchwork lampshade. [ via Whip Up ]
Check out this video highlighting Gwen Neucall of BeyondThePicketFence who makes natural soaps. She goes through the process of soapmaking, from selecting and combining ingredients to testing out experimental natural colors.
Rob Wood, of Western Warship Combat Club (WWCC), sent us this series of pics of the boat pond going up at Maker Faire. Thanks, Rob! Robotic Warship Combat
Matt Mechtley is gearing up for Maker Faire, where he’ll be showing his updated Nintendo Power Glove (with Arduino and Bluetooth, or course). He writes: Over the past few weeks I’ve been working on some improvements and extensions to my Power Glove 20th Anniversary Edition. On the tech side of things, I replaced the ugly […]
Garth Johnson recently got to attend the Kinetic Grand Championship, a human-powered art vehicle race across road, land, and water between Arcata and Ferndale, California. He took a lot of nice video and included some anecdotes of the more eccentric aspects of the competition over at Extreme Craft.
Joining us again this year at Maker Faire is the Western Warship Combat Club. The combat arena is much bigger than last year’s. Says WWCC’s Rob Wood: Last year’s pond was modest compared with this one (30′ x 60′ vs 50′ x 70′). In responding to some internal memo between Rob and Maker Faire organizers, […]
