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I’m really digging the look of thick, bold hand-carved stamp prints—they’re perfect for so many creative projects, especially journal covers and wall art! If you’re looking for a great intro project for your own stamp carving, check out this hand-carved house stamp tutorial (with printable template) from Elsie at A Beautiful Mess. I love making […]
I like Halloween decorations with a more vintage-y feel, so this Halloween crate tutorial from Heidi at My Paper Crane caught my eye immediately. These cute and spooky crates would be absolutely perfect for keeping candy at the ready for trick-or-treaters!
The slicing has stopped, the extruders have cooled, and the PLA is spooled and ready for its next printing assignment. MAKE’s unprecedented 3D Print Shop Weekend is over. The testing, the Google Hangout, and the open house were all great successes. This was an amazing opportunity to get most of the currently available consumer-grade printers in one room…
By Brookelynn Morris The first time I saw a kokedama string garden was right here, on Craftzine. Being a bonsai and ikebana enthusiast, I was captivated by yet another amazingly beautiful Japanese gardening method. I’ve hung my kokedama outdoors, where it sways a bit in the breeze, and I couldn’t love it more. The steps […]
Brian Jepson is editing the Lego book Wayne & Layne and I are working on (it’s called Make: Lego and Arduino Projects) and he was faced with having to buy a ton of parts in order to test our models. Instead he decided to use his 3D printer to make his own! Inspired by BitBeam‘s […]
The Treadmill Bike by Bicycle Forrest is cracking me up. Yes, it’s a viral video to ever so subtly introduce you to their Bicycle CAD software, but that’s not going to stop me from writing about it. Besides the fact that there’s CAD software geared towards building bikes, which is cool by itself, I think it’s great that they had an itch and decided to build a treadmill/bike mashup to scratch it.
Yesterday was a thrill and change. We had a very productive day (and night) and were able to accomplish three tests on many of the machines. Today we’re doing more testing and at 3pm PDT will be hosting a Google+ Hangout on Air to share the weekend’s grand adventure and to join up with offsite 3D printing enthusiasts.
