Hi Crafters! We are so excited to bring you Makers Market, a collaboration by MAKE and Boing Boing. Makers Market is a curated marketplace of wonderful science, tech and artistic creations created and sold directly by some of our favorite makers from around the world. Dive in and shop for arts + crafts, kits, jewelry, […]
Back in MAKE Volume 04 (2005), we ran a project for making an electric cigar box guitar. In the newest issue of MAKE, Volume 21, our editor in chief Mark Frauenfelder offers a DIY on making a classic cigar box guitar, and we’ve had a few people commenting on the article page and sharing gorgeous […]
If you’ve been following our exploits closely in the last year or so, you’ve likely caught wind of us working feverishly on something called Makers Market. After lots of heavy lifting and obsessive constructing, arranging, merchandising, and labeling, we’re ready to throw open the gates and show off our little marketplace. We think of it […]
Astronaut Bob Behnken participates in a spacewalk during STS-123. Image courtesy of NASA. Imagine having your workshop traveling at 17,500 miles per hour more than 200 miles over the Earth as you work through grueling, painstakingly-planned out steps of a project with specialized gadgets like a massive Pistol Grip Tool. STS-130 mission specialists, Bob Behnken […]
Remember Heidi? She entered our Me, My Scarf, and I contest with her rad couch scarf and flapper hat made from a men’s shirt, and now she’s back to show us how over at Instructables. More: Me, My Scarf, and I Contest: Couch Scarf Me, My Scarf, and I Contest Winners
Reader Craig Smith sent me an email about this recent little fix he discovered for time-worn cassettes: I was in my basement shop when I found a box of cassette tapes that were the soundtrack to my youth. Since the seldom-used tape deck was removed from the upstairs entertainment center, I set it up in […]
This light bulb Valentine over on Design*Sponge is just the thing for my sweetheart! He’s obsessed with energy efficiency, so this seems like the perfect reuse for a defunct light bulb (which will be replaced with a CFL!) as well as a spark for some fun wordplay (“You’re the Light of my Life”? “Wire You […]
