Device is a new art gallery in La Jolla, California created by sculptor Greg Brotherton and his wife Amy. Their next show, Fantastic Contraption, opens July 19 (and runs through Sept. 2). The 18-artist show explores the leaky margins between humans and their machinery and includes some of my favorites: Stephane Halleux, Nemo Gould, Theo […]
Cupcakes Take the Cake links to My Sweet and Saucy’s photo tutorial teaching us how to make these gorgeous and professional-looking frosting flowers. These would be so pretty for a casual summer wedding, baby shower, or any special event.
Sparkfun just released yet another Arduino variant, the Wii “Wee” – SparkFun’s minimal design approach to Arduino. This is a 3.3V Arduino running the 8MHz bootloader (select ‘LilyPad’ within the Arduino software). The Wee is not a fully certified Arduino board. We’re working with Arduino.cc towards certification. […] We really wanted to minimize the cost […]
One of my favorite comic-book publishers, Drawn & Quarterly, has teamed up with Atelier Woodenapples to present POMME-POMME, a new craft and zine fair happening this weekend in Montreal. They’ve got some great vendors lined up, including Supayana, Pin Pals, and Reprodepot Fabrics. Great event poster by Julia Rothman, too! Pomme-Pomme Sat. & Sun., July […]
Steampunk Workshop has a photo piece on cigar box guitar maker Mark Melchior (Hot Springs, Arkansas): …he searches local antique shops for older boxes to build these one of a kind pieces. Most boxes he chooses are pre-30’s and are solid wood. They feature skeleton keys for bridges and key escutcheons for sound holes. The […]
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Flickr member Kc7fys built this fine little voltage meter to indicate battery level using a bi-color LED and an LM358 op-amp chip – I could measure the resistance values and just use regular resistors to make it smaller. It tells me when my radio power supply (battery pack) is […]
Jonah @ MAKE writes: We’ve posted lots in the past about NYC Metrocard art projects, but this one might just take the cake. This Metrocard bicycle is completely covered with hundreds of the cards, perhaps to make a statement about human powered vehicles vs. taking mass transit and the environmental impact you will have (not […]
