Holiday Gift Guide 2012: 11 Crafty Books to Give and Get
Sometimes all a crafter wants is inspiration, and there’s nothing like a good craft book for that. Here are 11 crafty books that are perfect to wrap up as holiday gifts.
Month: December 2012
MAKE Asks: Difficult Skills
MAKE Asks: is a weekly column where we ask you, our readers, for responses to maker-related questions. We hope the column sparks interesting conversation and is a way for us to get to know more about each other.
Littlebits Extended Kits – Just in Time for the Holidays
Still looking for that perfect gift for a young maker? Check out the Littlebits Extended Kits that just arrived in the Maker Shed. Littlebits are an intuitive, easy to use electronics kit that makes learning about electronics a literal snap! The Extended Kit included 14 of the most fun, mechanical bits designed to work alone or to augment the Littlebits Starter Kit.
Minecraft Creeper Scarf
Tumblr user Agent Tamale knitted this ominous-looking scarf featuring the Minecraft Creeper’s face at either end of it.
Toolsday Hangout on Air, Live and Online Today at 2pm PST/5pm EST
Today is Toolsday here at MAKE, so you know what that means – a live Google+ hangout where we will be discussing our favorite tools and workspace essentials. Tune at 2pm PST/5pm EST on the +MAKE page, or if you’re busy you can catch it later on the MAKE YouTube page.
DIY LEGO Ornaments
We’ve posted about Chris McVeigh’s LEGO Star Wars ornaments before, but he’s got a new set of gorgeous DIY LEGO ornaments this year. His site includes parts lists for a bunch of different ornaments and holiday-themed builds. He also sells kits, but looks like they’re sold out for this year. (Via How About Orange.)
Thermal Printer Outputs Poems
Giles Booth wanted to build an internet printer, which is commonly used to print out tweets and do other automated outputs. I wanted to build a little internet printer, spewing out weather and tweets and the like. When I was testing my thermal printer, however, I got bored reading sample text and replaced it with […]