Jon Cox shows the Nor Cal Mars Rover Project at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011. This group of enthusiasts is dedicated to furthering the cause of making manned missions to Mars with the possibility of colonization in the future. NASA approached the group to design and build a prototype for a future Mars mission.
As a person with a fondness of things in miniature, I imagine it would be easy to get swept up in all the fun tiny details of making a farm-based marble run like this one by Katie of matsutake for Whip Up. I love how she created the corn maze and all the little farm […]
I try to avoid superlatives in my headlines, and have been for awhile now. But it’s been a long time since I had such a hard time resisting that urge. Here’s a few that came to mind while I was composing this one about the work of Dallas artist Gabriel Dawe: stunning, magnificent, celestial, gorgeous, beautiful, amazing, transcendent. “Awesome,” if it could still be used literally, might also have been in that list.
It’s amazing how a little bit of embroidery can turn a plain pair of shoes into a great accessory, and this backstitched shoe embroidery from Kitty at A Law Student’s Journey is a perfect example. In her post, Kitty also mentions that she might eventually decorate the tree with some colored leaves, which I think […]
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Sparkle Labs’ Discover Electronics Kit is back in the Maker Shed and better than ever. New components, documentation, and an accompanying online video course will have you building projects and reading schematics in no time. Everything you need to make a light detector, led flasher, noise maker and more is right in the box.
I’m with Jamie of Prudent Baby: I’ll take a sweet and spicy coffee cake over chocolate any day of the week. In the great cake-or-pie-in-a-mug tradition, she’s sharing how to make a simple coffee cake serving in a mug. You can have a mug of coffee in one hand, and a mug of coffee cake […]
