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.
As you may already know, David Lang, our Zero to Maker columnist, is involved in the OpenROV project, an open source camera-equipped R/C submersible, designed to look for water-burired treasure. They’re taking the ROV prototypes up to Hall City Cave in Northern, CA tomorrow for some preliminary dives. How exciting!
Our pal, Cathe Holden, of Just Something I Made has a new set of printables up for grabs. It’s huge folks, and it’s FREE, courtesy of WorldLabel.com and designed with a vintage flair by yours truly. 14 different label shape designs in 4 different colors for branding your handmade goods!
Lisa from Lil Fish Studios shared this gorgeous needle felted mushroom terrarium project on Lark Crafts. I’m loving the textures and details on the ground—especially the multicolored leaves! More: Needle Felted Pinball Bumper Necklace @Craftzine.com blog Project: Needle Felt A Voodoo Doll Pincushion @Craftzine.com blog Perfect Balls @Craftzine.com blog
