DIY Glitter Ring
I’m always impressed with the various uses for Mod Podge’s Dimensional Magic.
Year: 2013
How-To: Valentine’s Day Pinup Shoes
Raise the temperature a notch on your Valentine’s Day outfit with a pair of Valentine’s Day pinup shoes!
Easy Way Uses Arduino to Translate Subtitles on the Fly
Using the Video Experimenter shield for Arduino, a group in Brazil developed a way to translate live closed captioning to a number of different languages. Called Easy Way Subtitles, the project uses the Video Experimenter Shield to get the closed captioning text from the broadcasted signal and turns it over to Google Translate. Viewers can […]
How to Learn Almost Anything, Open MIT Online Class
Actually the name of the class is Learning Creative Learning and it’s offered by Mitch Resnick, the director of Lifelong Kindergarten group at the Media Lab. The ability to learn new ways to learn is more than a byproduct of a good education; it’s a basic survival skill in the 21st Century. What happens in […]
Victorian Watch Repair
Renaissance man Tim Hunkin wrote an article in the latest issue of MAKE (Vol. 33) about his adventures in vintage watch restoration. Here are some pocketwatch images to whet your appetite.
Dale Dougherty Introducing Make a Makerspace Conference
As this weekend’s conference on How to Make a Makerspace is getting started, I had a chance to speak briefly with Dale Dougherty. He briefly summed up why we need makerspaces, and what we might look forward to from this emerging community.
This weekend, nearly 200 representatives of established and burgeoning makerspaces from twenty states and three countries, have assembled at Artisans Asylum in Somerville, MA. We will be reporting on the event, here on Make, and will have more complete coverage on the Make a Makerspace site.
Creative Business Card Roundup
This roundup of business cards collected by Lexy of The Proper Pinwheel is fascinating.
