Crocheted Skeleton Scarf
Fabienne Gassmann created this unbelievable hand-crocheted skeleton scarf. [thanks Susanna!]
Month: February 2012
The World’s First Helicopters
This is a wonderful collection of black-and-white newsreel footage, assembled by the company that invented the newsreel, showing a montage of early helicopter prototypes in all their wacky and frequently-terrifying glory. It’s a highlight reel, about two minutes long, and the various clips that went into it are indexed, annotated, and available for watching in […]
A Visit to the Only American Mine for Rare Earth Metals
MAKE friend Kyle Wiens (iFixit) takes a trip to the only rare earth metals mine in the middle of the Mojave Desert.
Build the Eyeboard Open Source Eye-Tracking Project
When 18-year-old Honduran maker Luis Cruz met a quadriplegic high school classmate and learned about the challenges he and other folks with disabilities face in the light of expensive assistive communication technologies, he was inspired to devise a solution. What Luis came up with is the Eyeboard: an inexpensive yet reliable human-computer interface that detects […]
DIY Piñata
Spring is definitely in the air here at Make/Craft headquarters, in northern California. It’s time to start thinking about outdoor parties again. And if you’re going to have an al fresco soiree, you might be wanting a piñata! Sure, you could visit the local corner store and buy a donkey or a star, but if […]
Open Call for NYC Area Boatmakers, Builders, and Artists
Reported here on makezine last year by Jon Kalish, Marina 59’s “Boatel” in Far Rockaways, Queens, NYC, is expanding their programming this Summer with a 6-week boat-maker residency.
Make: Projects – Custom-Shaped Frameless Eyeglasses
Here is a process that would not have occurred to me. Make: Projects user Kiers knew enough about the machines used by eyeglass lens makers to know that they use a “dummy lens” template as a pattern to cut the outer profile of a lens. He found an accommodating online optician willing to use a […]
