John Park in the Maker Shed: tinyCylon kit build
They let me loose in the Maker Shed, so I grabbed a tinyCylon Kit, built it, and embedded it in a busted Nerf gun!
Month: March 2010
Winners of Built By Wendy Dresses
Congratulations to Nina of Brooklyn, NY, Tammi of Durham, NC, and Jan of Kent, OH for each winning a copy of the new book, Built By Wendy Dresses: The Sew U Guide to Making a Girl’s Best Frock by Wendy Mullin with Eviana Hartman. Thanks to everyone who entered!
How-To: Photograph “exploded” fruit
Over on DIY Photography, photographer and artist William van der Steen, has a nice tutorial on creating sliced fruit photos. [Thanks, Udi!] Create Wonderful Sliced Fruit Images More: DIY light box PVC Light box / light tent Cheap $1 light tent/light box
NYC health officials decide to allow beekeeping
NYC health officials decide to allow beekeeping… Beekeepers in New York City no longer have to keep the honey of their labors a secret. The city’s Board of Health decided Tuesday to allow beekeeping in the city after a long ban. Some New Yorkers have secretly tended beehives on rooftops and in backyard gardens for […]
Washcloth Bunnies
Petite Planet shows you how to make these adorable washcloth bunnies for your Easter baskets. It’s a great way to hold little treats in them too without using those plastic egg containers!
In the Makers Market: Build Your Own Cover Books
This funky book is made from two 5″ (16 X 16 dot in geek speak) square green LEGO® base plates. The paper is 70 lb. 100% recycled white paper suitable for writing or drawing. There are 10 signatures with 8 pages a signature for a total of 80 pages (or 160 if you count front and back sides.) Also included are 20 flat LEGO® pieces (the pieces may differ from the picture) AND a LEGO® separator so you can create the cover of your choice! This is the FUN part – go minimalist with the plain cover or add some color…All of my books and albums are made by hand in my home-based studio. So my creations will last I use acid free paper, cloth, and glue.
Toolbox: Take a seat!
In the Make: Online Toolbox, we focus mainly on tools that fly under the radar of more conventional tool coverage: in-depth tool-making projects, strange or specialty tools unique to a trade or craft that can be useful elsewhere, tools and techniques you may not know about, but once you do, and incorporate them into your […]