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The debut of American Maker at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago was this past Saturday. American Maker is similar to a small Maker Faire, featuring approximately 20 Makers and their amazing projects. We had thousands of people come out and enjoy the Show & Tell, which was part of LabFest and Science […]
Make: TV host John Edgar Park writes on his blog: This beast is on the Make: television set to make our PVC pipe version feel bad. It was built by a local maker (not sure of his name), and it’s a thing of beauty. All four tanks dump their air at once when you pull […]
Who knew you could turn simple green-frosted cupcakes into Kermit cupcakes by adding Mentos for eyes? DaveandRaina drew onthe Mentos using a food-safe marker to make the pupils.
Amazing aircraft carrier made in LEGO! There are some photo hijacking sites that yoinked the photos from Brickshelf, but I found the source and linked it up. Here’s a write up about @ Geekdad too… It’s a 200,000-brick, 350-pound aircraft carrier — the Harry S Truman — complete with electrical lights as well as moving […]
OK, so I apologize for the fact that this photo is so small–it’s all that the source had to offer–but holy moly, is this a cute gnome costume or what? My Paper Crane linked to the tutorial teaching you how to make this hilarious gnome-on-toadstool getup on FamilyFun. Look at the little fake legs crossed […]
A “surprisingly comfortable chair made from different size douglas fir blocks and 3,726 drywall screws” via NOTCOT. More: I think I like the shotgun shell chair a little more..
More specifically, things got coated with a thick layer of gore courtesy of the Gore Cannon. More on that in my next post; for now, thanks to all of our presenters for a great event: Nick Pietraniec explaining his work-in-progress guitar hero-bot. Edwin Wise and his Abyssal Organ. Meredith Johns (pictured) and Carolyn O’Hara from […]
