Crochet Adorned:Reinvent Your Wardrobe with Crocheted Accents, Embellishments, and Trims by Linda Permann Web Site: LindaMade We are so excited to be a part of Linda Perman’s blog tour for her new book Crochet Adorned! I’d like to call myself a natural born knitter but in the last few years while working at CRAFT, I’ve […]
Electro-Harmonix has been running an interesting series of demo vids that recreate far-out & famous sounds using only guitar + their pedals – and resident effectologist Bill Ruppert does a great job formulating each installment. Now handing out a spot-on recipe for “Wont Get Fooled Again”‘s spacey intro is neat and all – but pulling […]
Using conductive wool, Hannah Perner-Wilson made these crochet potentiometers. The metal beads in the center work as the wiper.
We keep hearing about all of these amazing devices and objects that other people are making with CNC tools like laser cutters, Shopbots, mills, and maybe you are feeling left out. You may be like the college student in the mid 1980’s who didn’t like completing papers on the typewriter and looking for a way to use the word processor. If today, you make a design for the part you need, how can you get it machined? You can leverage the power of 100 thousand garages.
Bitter Betty Blogs shares a tutorial for making these delicate doily and lace jellyfish. I imagine a a whole grouping of them hanging could be stunning!
Gather a group of potentially bored kids in an open space with tools and a heap of sawmill scraps, add summer vacation and what do you have? Hutopolis!
A village of eight huts was constructed during two weeks in July from timber slabs from an area sawmill, salvaged wood and found items. Each hut is different, based on the children’s design, with odd angles and shapes, rooftop lookout posts, windows, doors, ladders and a fire pit under a homemade shelter in the village center.
Those who made it out to the most recent Maker Faire Bay Area will likely recall seeing & playing the “Interactivation” collaborative music console. What many attendees likely didn’t know was that the device is actually the first assembled component of a much larger project. The work-in-progress known simplay as Lightning Temple will utilize the […]
