How-To: Frosted Skull Mirror
Make your own fun Halloween-inspired frosted skull mirror with this surprisingly simple technique!
Month: September 2014
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Making a Makerspace: Case Western’s think[box] and its great playbook
We’ve known Ian Charnas as part of a team that built the wonderfully whimsical Waterfall Swing, which you may have seen at Maker Faire, on “The Today Show”, or on the roof of a museum in Linz, Austria. But Ian’s day job is welcoming about 3,000 visitors a month to through the doors of think[box] at Case Western Reserve University […]
Katherine Hague Talks About Trends In Wearables
Katherine Hague deals with the newest wearables every day at the Blueprint, a marketplace for new and inventive tech. This exposure gives her some insight into what is really going on in the market place, and she has some ideas about where it will go in the future. Her talk at MakerCon discussed some […]
How-To: DIY Marbled Glassware Using Nail Polish
Create your own gorgeous glass designs in custom colors with this DIY marbled glassware tutorial!
Crouching Phoenix, Flying Dragon
A phoenix, dragons, a flying Jesus with accompanying angels, and a flying wizard (not to be confused with Harry Potter) are among the menagerie of creations you may see this year at Maker Faire. It sounds a bit crazy and maybe it is, but I loved it last year and I’m sure I’ll love it again this year.
Ayah Bdeir on LittleBits’ Hardware Development Kit
littleBits founder and CEO Ayah Bdeir shows how their new Hardware Development Kit and bitLab enables makers to create their own Bits to work with their electronics prototyping library and then offer them for sale to others. She demonstrates two new Bits that were created with HDK: Bleep Drum, a lo-fi Arduino-based drum machine and […]
Inventables Opens Their Easel CNC Software to All Users
Today at MakerCon, Inventables’ Zach Kaplan announced that the web-based CNC software Easel is moving out of beta testing and into full release.