How-To: Polymer Clay Gift Tags
Mitsy of ArtMind shares a detailed tutorial for making sweet polymer clay gift tags over at Poppytalk. I love that the tags are like an extra little gift in themselves!
Month: January 2010
Coffee bean cooler
The coffee connoisseurs in the crowd are probably familiar with the popcorn popper method of roasting your own beans. But anyone who’s tried it has probably found the hot-potato method of transferring the roasted beans back and forth between two colanders, to arrest the roasting process, a little… inelegant. On Evil Mad Scientist, Windell shows […]
The Frustromantic Box: A reverse geocache puzzle
Mikal Hart’s original “reverse geocache” puzzle ended up making a big splash when we first posted about it last October. Now Russ Weeks has produced his own version using an Arduino, an HD44780 display, a servo, and an EM406 GPS.
Ann Wood’s Bird in Progress
We’ve blogged about Ann Wood‘s amazing textile bird creations before (a few times!), but I love getting a glimpse of her process. You get a sense of the structure of the bird as well as the materials before they’re transformed! Plus, it’s also a gorgeous still life in its own right, a nice reminder of […]
“Letters, we get letters…”
We got this wonderful letter from MAKE subscriber Jim Kelly that we thought we’d share with all of you: Make: Team, Issue 21 is, in my opinion, the best issue of MAKE to date. I’m blown away by all the DIY fabrication tools that are now available to the small business or hobbyist. Reading through […]
Morse code puzzle box
Lucas Fragomeni built a puzzle box that can only be opened if a specific morse code sequence is entered. His starting point was a Reverse Geocache Puzzle he’d read about on Hack a Day, where a person has to bring a box to specific coordinates to release the catch. I was amazed by it, so […]
In the Maker Shed: Welcome to MAKE bundle
The Welcome to MAKE bundle is perfect for any of our online readers that haven’t subscribed to the print edition of MAKE Magazine. For a limited time we are offering the Welcome to MAKE bundle at an amazing discount of $48. That’s 46% off the price if you purchased these items individually.