Make Better Photos: Wooden Table Top Backdrop
Create your own wooden tabletop backdrop to make product shots look even better!
Join Us At Maker Media Lab For Our Drone Meetup, Win A Quadcopter!
Make: magazine Volume 44 hit the newsstands on March 24 and this issue is all about DRONES! To celebrate, Make: will host a meetup at the Maker Media Lab at the Palace of Fine Arts. These days drones are buzzing, not only in the skies, but throughout the Maker community! Makers’ love affair with drones is easy […]
Carry It All in Style: DIY Color Block Tote Bag
Transform a plain tote bag into a fashion statement with this easy-to-follow technique for making your own DIY geometric color block tote! Whether they’re holding knitting or notebooks, tote bags are necessary carry-alls for creatives on the go. But, that doesn’t mean they have to be boring! Grab a roll of masking tape, then check […]
Free Ticket To Ride: Illegal Metro Card Duplicator
If you live in an area where the metro or subway use tickets with magnetic strips, you may have already had this idea. Can these be copied? Well, this proof of concept says yes. The device called the ticketizer literally makes copies of metro tickets. Utilizing an audio amp, a card reader, and a […]
Hacked Teddy Bear Warms Your Heart and Your Hugs
Vladimir wrote in to share an interesting project he just completed. He is using the heating element from a heated jacket to heat a stuffed bear. The result is a cuddly warm stuffed animal. It looks like an ordinary silk fabric, very thin and soft. You do not feel it under a toy fur. […]
Video: Watch How Much Work Goes into This Beautiful Wooden Bowl
Frank Howarth, who has a shop that would put most woodworkers to shame, made the beautiful bowl seen in the picture above as a wedding present. Naturally, a bowl like this takes a lot of work to make (seriously, a lot), as seen in the video below. Frank started out with two pieces of wood, […]
Sewing Tip: How to Finish an Embroidery Project in an Embroidery Hoop
If you’re anything like me, completing the stitching in an embroidery project isn’t the hard part, it’s the finishing—or preparing it for hanging or display—that seems much more daunting. Finishing embroidery projects is one of those crafting topics that, if you were to ask a room filled with experienced stitchers how to do it, you’d […]