HOW TO – Make a Bikini from T-Shirts
ThreadBanger’s Threadheads has a tutorial on how to sew up this sizzlin’ summer bikini from old t-shirts. Also, don’t miss their recent coverage of the Renegade Craft Fair in Chicago. Link.
Workshop
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the industrial arts from metal and woodworking to CNC machining and 3D printing.
iRobot Create Robot (review)
Todbot (author of Roomba Hacking) has a review of the iRobot Create Robot, he writes – At the 2007 CES iRobot announced a robot explicitly designed for hobbyist and educational robotics experimenters called the iRobot Create. The iRobot Create is now shipping and iRobot kindly sent me one to review and verify it’s applicability to […]
Downhill Makers
Garage ski builders are outdoing the pros.
Making Trouble — Makers vs. Shakers
Make it beautiful, make it last, or don’t make it at all.
Burn to Learn
The Crucible industrial arts school’s community of practice.
Dangerous books
Mark has a short review and round of some dangerous books, some more than others, including my favorite he Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments… he writes – Already a huge hit in the UK, The Dangerous Book for Boys, by Gon Iggulden and Hal Iggulden, is taking the US by storm. The first print run […]
Turn a Chalk Board into a Dry Erase Board
McPhystal writes in about turning a chalk board into a dry erase board… – I’m a teacher and have been trying to convert old classroom chalk boards to dry-erase. I’ve tried epoxy spray paint, Krylon, and many other types of paint. I found that the best thing to do is to use oil-based/HIGH GLOSS paint […]
