If you’ve worn a hole in a favorite pair of denim blue jeans, check out this great little instructional video from Swedish jean company Nudie Jeans, showing you how to repair the hole using a bit of iron-on interfacing, a swatch of denim, and a needle and thread. It’s a super simple and the fix is unobtrusive-looking. Press play on the video just to hear the charmingly upbeat 1930s ditty “Tre Trallande Jäntor” by Felix Körling.
Mercury has been used for everything from pipe organs and furnaces to simple switches. Here we take a look at a basic mercury tilt switch and use it to operate a mechanical doorbell (with video).
A look at some of the projects competing in the New York’s Next Top Makers competition, recently presented at the 6th Hardware Startup Meetup in NYC.
The aim of DARPA’s Tactically Expandable Maritime Platform is to link shipping containers to form whatever shape you desire – useful for emergency helicopter landings or creating platforms for crane use. The GRASP Lab at UPenn, which is famous for their use of quadrotors, has taken the lead on research for the project.
Minneapolis maker Greg Flanagan made an organizer for his tools using a slab of CNCed wood. First he arranged the tools how he wanted them. Next, he took a photo of the arrangement and pulled it into his vector art program where he traced the tools. Finally, he imported his drawing into CAM software and […]
I first met Laura Bruland of Yes & Yes Designs in May 2012 at TechShop in San Francisco. As an avid book reader I was intrigued by the fact that she took old discarded books and turned them into jewelry. OK, I slightly cringed at this, but the results are beautiful. At the time she was able to run her entire business out of TechShop. No overheard, no employees. Just her and a monthly membership.
Move forward seven months and she’s grown her business from six stores in San Francisco to 23 around the world. She went from being a one-woman show to having a business partner/employee and her own laser cutter
From the brilliant fingertips of Meream Pacayra comes this sweet single-stem rosette necklace, made from yarn, florist wire, and a few other items. Over on her blog, Bored & Crafty, she shows you how to make your own. Also check out Meream’s Guitar Bag tutorial, originally published in CRAFT Volume 10!
