Craft Inc: The Ultimate Guide to Turning Your Creative Hobby into a Successful Business By Meg Mateo Ilasco Chronicle Books There are lots of things to think about when starting up a new business, such as: What will you be selling? How will you market it? What will your profit margin look like? How will […]
It’s tonight! This episode of Make: Live is our Ultimate Kit Episode, in honor of the new Special Issue of MAKE, The Ultimate Kit Guide. Ariel Churi guest hosts with Matt in Brooklyn NY to show off electronics kits, Michael Schrage talks kitonomics, the interns demo some ballistics kits, and Brookelynn Morris calls in with Becky from MAKE HQ in California to talk craft kits.
The Houston Chronicle has a recap from the International Quilt Festival including this photo of Elizabeth C. Kelley Anthony’s “The Texas Quilt.” You can read the whole article here.
Childrens’ Technology maven and playful tinkerer Scott Traylor came up with this whimsical mod for used movie theatre 3d glasses. With his simple PDF template everyone can go green in more ways than one. From his site:
Today, I spent the morning going through my reader, trying my best to get excited about cold weather crafting. I was having a little trouble mustering my usual level of creative enthusiasm, but then I saw these chevron mittens from Trula Kids, and I new that I’d found my first project! The blogger made them […]
If you’ve seen my zombified vintage embroidery design, you know that I’m a fan of taking innocuous things and turning them … a bit disturbing. These holiday decorations from Jo Anne of Crafting for Cheapskates take that hobby to a whole new level. See how she’s turned thrifted holiday decorations into creepy knick knacks. I […]
LeBigRep is a monster RepRap capable of building within a 1-meter cube. Inspired by the RepRap Project, the idea arose of having a machine which could actually produce objects exceeding the dimension of objects produced by desktop fabbing devices as the RepRap, Makerbot, etc. Imagine printing furniture, sculptures and other life size structures and experimenting […]
