Flashback: Easy Faux Glass Eyeballs for Steampunk Projects
Creating faux glass eyeballs (that seem to follow you as you move) is very simple using actual eye images and glass bubble gems.
Month: January 2013
Visiting a Motor Factory in Shenzhen
MAKE friend Akiba of Freaklabs visited a DC motor factory with some friends. Lotus is a medium sized motor manufacturer and the facility we visited manufactures DC motors. They have a separate facility to manufacture stepper motors as well, but we were not able to go to that factory. Once we arrived at the factory, […]
How-To: Embroidery Hoop Hanging Plant Sculpture
Whether you’ve got a green thumb or can’t even take care of a cactus, this hanging plant sculpture tutorial will help you add some style to your greenery!
Your Comments
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Make a Bag 101
Some of us have New Year’s Resolutions, and some of us act on them! Lier of the Ikat Bag blog is missing her teaching days, so she’s done a fabulous series on the nuts and bolts of how to make a bag. She’s up to Chapter 3: Integrated Straps and if you’re interested in sewing […]
How-To: Happy and Sad Embroidered Mittens
No matter how you feel about cold weather, this happy and sad embroidered mittens tutorial has you covered!
Magic Eye Audio Spectrum Display
Sylvain, AKA MicroSyl, wanted to build an audio spectrum display using old “magic eye” vacuum tubes: After doing some project with vintage tube I got the idea of doing an audio spectrum display with “magic eyes tube” and driving those with an AVR MCU with Fast Fourier Transform. The enclosure is sweet too! [via Embedded […]