Month: February 2012

Get Crafty For President’s Day!

Get Crafty For President’s Day!

If you’ve been lucky enough to be granted a three-day weekend thanks to President’s Day, it’s a perfect time to break out the craft supplies and make something to celebrate. Our team has the day off, but to keep your craft needs satisfied, here’s a roundup of some of our favorite Presidential projects we’ve posted […]

How-To: Miniature Felt Umbrella

How-To: Miniature Felt Umbrella

The meticulous work that goes into this wee felt umbrella project from Cynthia Treen is beautiful and impressive. She’s shared the pattern and step-by-step tutorial over on The Crafts Department. The umbrella is an accessory to an adorable felt frog prince pattern she also created. He looks so dapper with it sitting on his shoulders!

An Introduction to MAKE

An Introduction to MAKE

If you’re coming to our site after having seen MAKE’s founder Dale Dougherty on CNN’s The Next List, welcome! We thought we’d take this opportunity to introduce you (and others who might be new to MAKE) to some of what we do here and why. We’ve got a lot of different things going on and […]

Hard Drive POV Clock

Hard Drive POV Clock

Jason Hotchkiss made this amazingly geeky timepiece using persistence of vision and an old hard drive. All the code and schematics are available on Github and he’s diligently documented the process of making it on his blog, Stuff and Nonsense. If you like POV clocks as much as I do, be sure to check out […]