Fans of the television show Parks and Recreation may have caught this awesome scene at the very end of season 5, episode 14, where character Ron Swanson rips out a wall sconce and forges wedding rings from the metal in a cast iron waffle iron.
This month we debuted the Maker Pro Newsletter, a subscription based e-newsletter aimed at informing, analyzing, educating, and catalyzing emerging business opportunities for makers. In addition to the newsletter, we’re covering the maker pro space in other ways, tool. Today MAKE CEO and founder Dale Dougherty will host a Google+ hangout on air with Greg Mader, a consultant for Open ERP.
When we post new content on MAKE, we love hearing from our readers. Whether the comments be intelligent, insightful, or funny, here are our favorites from the past week, from Makezine, our Facebook page, Google+ Community, and Twitter.
Make a stylish new home for your houseplants with this fun geometric cement planter tutorial!
There are less than two weeks left in GoFundMe’s “make-a-thon” contest so you better get busy. The deadline to enter is March 1. The crowd-sourced funding company is offering a total of $10,000 for the “best maker projects” submitted on the site.
Uber-maker Niklas Roy (see all his MAKE mentions) built this excellent pen plotter out of Finnish cardboard, welding rod, rubber bands, tape, and glue. I especially love the all-cardboard interface! When I gave a workshop at the School of Art and Design in Offenbach about building digital devices out of cardboard, the students asked me […]
Is your ideal world pretty, perfumed, and squeaky clean? Make that dream a reality with a batch of homemade lavender soap!
