Chances are, if you’ve got something with sufficient volume and a rigid body, you can probably put a speaker in it. With a little trial and error you can come up with a unique speaker enclosure that will be both pleasing to the eye and appealing to the ear.
Our featured image from the MAKE Flickr pool this week is from regular fdecomite, whose beautifully-made and -photographed geometrical sculptures appear here frequently. In fact, this is the second of his works featuring spherical-mirror anamorphosis to be featured in this space; the first was back in March 2011. Hats off to you, sir. Thanks for […]
With Valentine’s Day fast approaching, it’s a perfect time to put together some cute heart-themed accessories. Alisha of Felt So Cute shares her quick and easy tutorial for sweet felt Valentine headbands, and while they are modeled by her daughters, I’d say they are perfect for adults as well!
Don’t risk breaking any bottles next time you carry beer to a party. Now you can make your own 6 Packer, a laser cuttable six pack carrier designed by Thingiverse user timogiles. Since it’s designed in OpenSCAD, an open source parametric 3D modeling program, you can easily change the material thickness, bottle diameter, fastener size, and hand grip size and cut a 6 Packer to your own specifications.
Here are some cool things we saw in the CRAFT Flickr Pool this week: Heart, by tousled day felt your raybans for winter, by saxarocks we all carry scars from the past . . . ., by maximum RABBIT designs Faceted terracotta necklace, by Anastasia Egórova wooden rubber stamp, by minna.s
This melted crayon art tutorial from Stephanie of 52 Kitchen Adventures gives crafters of all ages a chance to play with crayons, and to melt them. When I was little I loved to melt crayons, you can put crayon shavings on wax paper and make “stained glass”, or draw on a piece of paper that […]
There’s something so charming about combining high and low tech, which is why I like Trammell Hudson’s latest tutorial. The NYC Resistor member posted an excellent guide on how to use a lasercutter to create intaglio letterpress plates out of acrylic, which is much less expensive than using the traditional copper. Intaglio plates have the positive image etched into them which creates reservoirs that hold the ink and are transfered to the paper.
