Kit-A-Day Giveaway: Thingamagoop 2
Today’s giveaway is a Thingamagoop 2 analog noise monster (value at $110). Here’s the first part of John Baichtal’s review of the Thingamagoop 2 from the Guide…
Month: December 2011
Woven Paper Ball Garland
I’m definitely digging this woven paper ball garland from Jessica at How About Orange—it looks like so much fun to make! Head over to her site for more photos of the project and tips on stringing the woven balls together. In her post, she also included a link to the ball weaving tutorial that she […]
Building the MakerGear Mosaic 3D Printer – Part V: The Extruder
This is the fifth installment of my series on building the MakerGear Mosaic 3D printer. This part covers installation of the “business end” of the machine, i.e. the extruder assembly, which consists of the preassembled motor and filament drive / hot-end groups, and the cooling fan. The fan and heater power leads, and the temperature sensor lead, are also connected at this stage.
One of Many Luna Mod Looper Mods
Weekend Projects reader R. Lee writes in with his perfboard version of the Luna Mod Looper, one of many mods now out there in the wild. Not that I don’t appreciate the carpentry in Brian McNamara’s original project, but personally, this “all-guts-exposed” approach is my favorite style of making.
How-To: Modify a Dress Pattern to Make a Skirt
We’ve all seen a cute dress pattern, fallen in love with the flattering cut, and then thought, “I’d wear that all the time—if it were a skirt.” Once again, Caitlin at The Coletterie comes to the rescue with a new tutorial for modifying a dress pattern to make only a skirt. I love the ladies […]
Goodnight, Maker: Books for Pre-Readers
As a book-loving maker family, we try to find books that will prime our two boys, ages 2 and 4, to have the curiosity, whimsy, creativity, resourcefulness, flexibility of thinking, environmental understanding, and mechanical sense to contribute to the family-wide maker projects we’ve already started to do together. But discovering compelling books that can do this can be challenging.
Martha Stewart’s Toadstool
Martha Stewart does it again and makes the cutest little mushroom toadstool!