The Sewing Seeds Residency Program at the Textile Arts Center has been working on the “food Scraps” project, and as part of the project they’ve shared this great tutorial for using left-over onion skins as a natural dye.
Handmade cards are the very best and this tutorial of one filled with photos by A Beautiful Mess is the perfect way to send warm wishes this holiday season.
Mad props to NPR’s All Tech Considered blog for namechecking MAKE (and yours truly) yesterday in this n00b-friendly piece about the prospect of building one’s own 3D printer. MC Rae Bichell quotes me on my favorite four-word description of fused-filament printers as “robot hot glue guns,” and drops a link to our new Ultimate Guide to 3D Printing. Respect, Rae!
Lego builder Nick V built this sweet video card — “the PowerBuild IRON HD” with a 64-bit ABS drive! This is part of the Iron Builder competition where Lego builders compete against each other to build the most amazing models.
When it comes to jewelry, it doesn’t get much better that a piece that can pull triple duty.
Netherlands-based artist and maker Victor Sonna produces these chaotic, but functional bicycles from objects “we refuse to destroy” or throw away. A member of the Collaboration-O arts collective and avid cyclist in Eindhoven, Sonna gives his bicycles titles that pay homage to modern artists, popularly known for their paintings.
I can’t help but admire the way artist Diana Beltran Herrera transforms simple strips of paper into something so whimsical and strange in these sculptures and installations.
