I’ve been an Amy Earles fan for a few years now, and I’m so happy she’s started up a blog and an Etsy shop (both go by the name Wool & Water). Her storybook-like gouache paintings are sometimes dreamy, sometimes sinister–but always totally unique. She’s also been making paper doll sets inspired by her paintings, […]
Some good news and encouraging news — a MAKE: NYC group is forming, there is a meeting zero on 9/27 (before the Handmade music night event in NYC) but it’s already full in record time! You can stop by if you want (space will be limited for standing room only too) or just show up […]
This Saturday head on over to Community Park in O’Fallon, IL for the Strange Folk Indie Arts and Craft Festival! There will be 100 vendors with lots of activities and giveaways happening throughout the day. Free Strange Folk goody totes will be handed out to the first 150 attendees to present a vendor purchase. Plus […]
There’s a newly-updated Handmade Nation trailer online and ready for viewing! As director Faythe Levine notes, the new clip includes: A bit of the footage from our previous one and a lot of new faces including peeps from: Poketo, Needles & Pens, Little Otsu, Jenny Hart, Reform School and more! We are still chugging along […]
Brian writes in – I built this a few years ago. I had seen all the nice hexapod kits from lynxmotion. I figured I could do the same thing, but for less money. So I got 12 servos, an OOPic microcontroller (www.oopic.com), and a bunch of basswood from the local hobby shop. I had just […]
Pop Sci has an amazing gallery from Nikon’s annual Small World Competition, some of the photos are of subjects less than half a millimeter! Link. Pictured here, Erpobdella octoculata (fresh water leech), magnified 25x. Photograph by Vera Hunnekuhl
Bunnie posted up more in the “Made in China” videos/article series. It’s a really interesting view in to what actually goes in design, development and bringing a product to market when you go overseas, in this case the open source “Chumby” a Wi-Fi clock-like companion that does interactive applications… Link. More: Made in China: Automation […]
