I’ve been looking forward to Art Hack Day for many months now, and it’s finally here this weekend in Brooklyn! For the 50+ artist/hacker participants it’s actually a 3-day long “happening” of collective creativity and DIY expression that will culminate at 7pm on Saturday, January 28th, with a public exhibition of all of their fabrications. […]
Joel Miller of Massachusetts (known for his excellent MakerBot Transformer) is working on converting a milling machine into a CNC. He’s even creating his own enclosure with touch screen, complete with PCBs he etched himself. Joel’s blog posts have tons of information on how he accomplished each step of the project — check ’em out!
With two crafty daughters, my house is always stocked with a bucket’s worth of Perler (or Hama) beads, and I’ve always thought it would be fun to veer from the pegboards they come with and string them into something beautiful. Well now I’ve found just the project. Kate from Mini-Eco has been weaving them into […]
Ok, Mitten crafters. It’s almost time for the sixth annual Knit Michigan, a fundraiser to support Michigan cancer charities. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Feb. 4 at the Academy of the Sacred Heart in Bloomfield Hills, fiber-arts lovers can participate in workshops, all-day knitting and crocheting, and shop at local stores on hand […]
Yesterday I mentioned MIT’s soon-to-be-released open-courseware materials detailing a DIY phrased radar array radar system built from pegboard and wi-fi antennae. The project, from MIT engineers Drs. Bradley Perry, Jonathan Paul Kitchens, Patrick Bell, Jeffrey Herd, and Greg Charvat produces ‘radar video’ at about three frames per second. Greg just e-mailed me a link to […]
I have a mostly finished pair of pants sitting right next to my sewing machine. All I need to do is install the invisible zipper (hold me, I’m afraid) and stitch up the other side, and they’ll be ready to hit the town. Luckily, Kate from See Kate Sew seems to have sensed my anxiety […]
Without a doubt, one of the most loved attractions at Maker Faire are the life-sized R2D2s that roam the fairgrounds. Their controllers are usually just off to the side of the groups of people who crowd around the R2D2s, smiling as kids and adults alike proceed to flip out over the droid who feels like […]
