Month: May 2011

Happy Mother’s Day, Crafters!

I hope you’re enjoying the day, whether you are a Mom, or you’re celebrating your own Mom, or both. I thought I’d share this photo of my Mom, from 1965. She’s wearing a suit she made in her college tailoring class – an Evan Picone design for Vogue patterns. (Oh, those amazing giant covered buttons!) […]

Make: Projects – Router Trammel

Make: Projects – Router Trammel

This attachment mounts in place of your router’s factory baseplate and is used for cutting circular disks from, or boring circular holes in, sheet stock. It pivots about a small pin rotating in a blind hole drilled in the center of the stock to be cut. This one is based on a design from Bill Hylton’s excellent book “Router Magic.”

Great Global Hackerspace Challenge Update

Great Global Hackerspace Challenge Update

With up to thirty hackerspaces participating in element14’s Great Global Hackerspace Challenge, it’s hard to summarize all of their work over the past few weeks. However, XinCheJian’s Ricky Ng-Adam’s GGHC Awards does a great job of profiling most of the projects competing in the contest, and even offers unofficial awards like “Best surprise working feature […]