The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the industrial arts from metal and woodworking to CNC machining and 3D printing.
We’ve just posted two awesome woodworking pieces on Make: Projects by our resident woodworing guru, Len Cullum. They show you, step by step, how to build a set of low horses (think no-legged saw horses) and how to fix cracks in wood stock with decorative butterfly splines. These two projects were part of our Woodworking theme in February.
I recently got my hands on a Silhouette SD electronic cutter. It’s a little computer-controlled craft robot with very sharp teeth! Use it to cut out designs for all sorts of things: paper crafts and scrapbooking, vinyl lettering, glass and metal etching, stencils, and anything else that involves precision cutting of small planar materials. There’s […]
Make Stuff Together: 24 Simple Projects to Create as a Family, by Bernadette Noll and Kathie Sever Book Site: Future Craft Collective Make Stuff Together is the work of two women who’ve made it their mission to help families create together. Bernadette Noll and Kathie Sever run the Austin, TX-based Future Craft Collective, which offers […]
Just in time for Father’s Day, make Dad’s sleeves glow with light up power button cufflinks: Sophisticated. Modern. Open Source. Gorgeously machined aluminum with a subtle pulsating LED. Perfect for Father’s day or for that geek who loves technology and needs to get dressed up for a special event. Welcome to the future! This is […]
In anticipation of Father’s Day (this weekend!) we’re offering this review of Geek Dad’s Guide to Weekend Fun. We think the book is, well, fun, and we think you’ll agree. And as an added bonus, we’re giving MAKE readers a free, downloadable PDF of one of the book’s projects, the really fun NERF Dart Blowgun. Enjoy!
Thingiverse user EverydayInventors provides this worthy addition to the amusing warning label genre, for those “when you know it’s not a good idea, but you’ve gotta do it anyway” situations.
This piece (“Weapons of Mass Destruction Q76T14 W5”) can be seen with at least six of Brooklyn artist Justin Amrhein’s similar works at San Francisco’s Michael Rosenthal Gallery from June 25 to July 30, and online at Justin’s site.
