How-To: Make Your Own Paint Brushes
This looks so fun: make your own paint brushes with the help of this guide by missannie. The best tools are the ones you make yourself!
Month: April 2011
Make: Live 4/13/11 – Bikes, Basics to Extremes (video)
Make: Live ep06 is all about bikes! Thanks to our guests Nick Normal and William Thomas Porter. Catch up on video and notes from the show here. Want to show us your project? Upload a video or photos and send a link to live@makezine.com. Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTunes, download Make: Live episode […]
In the Maker Shed & Back in Stock: Netduino Plus
Software, meet hardware. The Netduino Plus from the Maker Shed is an open source electronics platform using the .NET Micro Framework. The board features a 32-bit microcontroller and a rich development environment, making it a perfect solution for engineers and hobbyists alike.
Conference Lanyard Bag
If you hit a lot of conferences, you’ll likely end up with loads of bold, graphic nylon lanyards. I love what our friends over at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories have done with their collection of lanyards. Conference lanyards are often made of nice sturdy woven webbing. They seem like they ought to have plenty of […]
Open MAKE, THIS Saturday, April 16th, 10am – 2pm, at the Exploratorium
Wood is the theme for this month’s Open MAKE/Young Makers program at the Exploratorium in San Francisco.
Ann Arbor Mini Maker Faire — Call For Makers
Organizers of the third Ann Arbor “Mini” Maker Faire have issued a Call for Makers for the June 4, 2011 event to be held at the Washtenaw Farm Council Grounds near Ann Arbor, Michigan. The Faire features exhibits and activities in robots, green tech, science, radio, rocketry, unusual tools/techniques, fixing and/or taking things apart, and […]
Mythbusters Embroidered Portraits
As my husband and I watched a new episode of Mythbusters last night, I was browsing blogs on my laptop. There couldn’t have been better timing for Mr. X Stitch’s post about these amazing Mythbusters embroidered portraits to pop up in my reader. Craftster user, CraftyOctober, created them. The facial hair and stitched on gears […]