Woodpile Drum Set
Unsightly woodpile cluttering your garden? Have you considering turning it into a glorious drum set?
Month: February 2013
How-To: His and Her Pillowcases
For Valentine’s Day, it doesn’t get much cuter than DIY his and her pillowcases!
Haystack School of Crafts Summer Deadlines Approach
Haystack is a craft school that teaches blacksmithing, clay, fibers, glass, graphics, metals, and wood; they’ve even got a Fab Lab. The studios wind their way down the side of a huge moss covered rock on Deer Isle in Maine. Their Summer deadline for scholarships and workshops is coming up at the end of the month: […]
The Face of Printable Firearms: A Conversation with Cody Wilson
For months, controversy has been building around 24-year-old Austinite Cody Wilson, full-time law student and part-time director of Defense Distributed, a non-profit working to develop and freely distribute designs for working 3D-printable firearms. Even before Sandy Hook, their “WikiWeapon” project was controversial, placing the group squarely at the intersection of emerging debates over the uses and abuses of both crowdfunding and 3D printing. After the tragedy, that controversy assumed a sudden, violent urgency on the national stage, and Wilson became an even hotter media commodity. He receives death threats and strangers recognize him on the street. When I catch up to him, on Jan. 16, President Obama has just unveiled the most sweeping package of gun-control proposals the U.S. has seen in decades.
How-To: Chevron Painted Neckties
Make your next event a little more DIY dapper with chevron painted neckties!
Maximoog
A tribute to the man who gave us so many good vibrations.
Everything, For Everybody, Everytime
Most tools are designed to fulfill one explicit function, so they have one name and a single efficient form. But multitools are different: they’re compact, hingey, clumsy, ungainly, folding, pronged, clickety-clackety.