Francesco De Comité was one of several makers who responded to my request for more workshop pix. Regular readers of Make: Online may recognize Francesco’s brilliant work, which has appeared here many times, and his eccentric workshop looks like it would be utterly fascinating to explore. (Click to embiggen, somewhat — or see it in […]
I noticed the other day on Twitter that my local pie shop, Mission Pie, announced that they’d made their last shaker lemon pie for the season. I’ve been a little bit addicted to it, so this was a serious blow! That sent me onto the web to find the perfect shaker lemon pie recipe, and […]
My friend Marty recently moved away, and apparently forgot a few things on the way, such as his shower curtain and bottle opener.
By Nikol Lohr With short sleeves and a wide neckline, this retro-inspired cropped summer jacket goes from sunshine to summer nights or chilly air-conditioned offices. Knit from the top down, with puffed sleeves and seed stitch edging, the seamless design means that there’s very little finishing, and it’s ready to wear as soon as it’s […]
Boris Smus, a student at Carnegie Mellon, built this elegantly simple robot that uses a smartphone to interpret commands from Twitter. A few projects around the internet use an Android phone to control the Lego Mindstorms NXT brick. Most involve an ugly hack in which the phone communicates with a computer over WiFi, and the […]
I’ve been collecting used books for making craft projects for ages. But I never knew I could make them into stone! These rocks made from the pulp of recycled books by Lisa Kokin are great. They look almost like real sedimentary stones.
Here’s a pretty awesome 3d display, that uses synchronized droplets of water to project a 3-layer image.
