Now, this is a stash buster that I can really get behind! Turn some inexpensive flats into handmade fashion art with this fabric scrap shoes tutorial from Jennifer at Naughty Secretary Club. It’s a great way to use even your tiniest pieces of leftover fabric, and there’s no stitching required! More: How-To: Cat Shoes @Craftzine.com […]
The emerging story of entrepreneurs using drones to provide marketable services is fascinating to me. Small businesses have been making money by making drones themselves for quite awhile, now, but I’m just now starting to see start-ups using drones to sell services. Aerial photography is maybe the most obvious opportunity—surveying real estate, covering sporting or […]
It’s Friday morning, and somehow I’m already thinking about chocolate. I blame Instructables user foodsnots, who absolutely blew my mind with her Oreo and peanut butter brownie cakes recipe. The fact that I’m trying valiantly to justify making them for breakfast probably bodes very well for the weekend! More: Oreo Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies @Craftzine.com […]
I spotted this fancy ceiling illumination in the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh while there for the Pittsburgh Mini Maker Faire. The LEDs are connected to ribbon cables that attach to an EMSL Peggy 2 Kit similar to the one we sell in the Maker Shed
This IKEA hack from Lilia in Canada gets the design nerd in me all kinds of excited. Using a PS Maskros Pendant lamp as a base, she got crafty with her glue gun and a stack of Pantone paint chips. Get her tips on making it work over on on IKEA Hacker. More: Pantone Chip […]
A few neat projects that were recently added to our collaborative wiki, Make: Projects: an over-the-air TV antenna, a device to generate white noise to drown the din of your computer fan, a handsome APRS tracker, and how to paint QR code on a large surface.
Harvey Moon wrote in with an update to his Drawing Machine art bot: It is titled “Bugs Draw For Me” and it combines my Drawing Machine with some code I wrote that tracks a bug’s movement. Using two custom Processing programs, an Arduino, a camera and a cricket, I was able to make unique artworks […]
