Tiny House Summer Camp
20 DIY’ers from around the United States gathered at Derek Diedricksen’s off-the-grid camp in Vermon’t’s North East Kingdom for a weekend workshop on tiny house building.
Month: August 2012
3D Photoshop Tutorial
Over on the Shutterstock blog, Byron Hudson and Kathy Cho share some tips and a how-to for creating and adding some 3D-summery font effects to your next design project.
Kickstarted? Now What?
It turns out Kickstarter is just what it says: a start. Don’t let the countdown timer – 30 Days, 7 Days, 48 Hours – fool you into thinking this is anything remotely close to a month-long sprint. The Kickstarter campaign is like the montage sequence in The Empire Strikes Back where Luke trains with Yoda. […]
DIY Folded Paper Wall Art
Make a bright and bold statement on your wall with an easy folded paper project by How About Orange.
More Plumbers? Or Reinvented Toilets?
“I believe that we need a national PR campaign for skilled labor – like, a big one.” – Mike Rowe Mike Rowe (of Dirty Jobs fame) recently went in front of Congress and told them we need to train a whole new generation of plumbers. I like Mike’s train of thought. However, I think he’s missing […]
Support Action Kivu
Alissa Carlton, of Handmade by Alissa, checked in with us to let us know about the third annual Action Kivu fundraiser. Action Kivu helps women who are victims of the conflict in Eastern Congo by teaching them to sew at a sewing workshop. Action Kivu also pays for children to go to school. Check out […]
Hackerspace Happenings for August 16
Are you a hackerspace member with an event you’d like to publicize? Send it to johnb@makezine.com or tweet me at @johnbaichtal and I’ll post it. Also feel free to subscribe to my hackerspaces Twitter list. Hackerspace Happenings runs weekly(ish). Surface Mount Soldering Class at NYC Resistor There sure are some nifty new electronic components coming […]