Kokeshi Doll Ornament
Zakka Life shows you how to make an easy Kokeshi Doll Ornament made from a wooden clothes pin. Link.
Month: November 2007
Federated Media’s annual Holiday Gadget Guide
Federated Media, the networked blog advertising agency and publisher (that reps makezine.com, boingboing.com, and streettech.com, among many others) has put together another one of their Holiday Gadget Guides (the first appeared last year). The Guide includes reviews of recommended gadgets and fine geekery from bloggers in the FM network, including three of your MAKE editors: […]
Rice Heat Therapy Bag Tutorial
Kristin of Sew,Mama,Sew shows you how to make a rice heat therapy bag that works cold or hot. You can also reinterpret this tutorial to make soothing eye pillows. Seems like a great gift to make for the holidays and cold winter months. There’s also a downloadable PDF gift tag too! Link.
HOWTO run the XO laptop emulator on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon
Tom Hoffman has posted some quick and easy instructions for running Sugar (“essentially a virtual XO”) on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon. If you don’t have a giant screen, check out these instructions for tips on using a lower resolution (you’ll need to do something like vi `which sugar-emulator` to edit the startup script). This might hold […]
HOW TO – Make a CD Envelope
Lori of Camp Creek Press has a tutorial on how to make a CD envelope using a page from a vintage children’s music book. Link.
Julie Arkell Photos
Blogger Manda posted photos from a Julia Arkell show. I am not familiar with Julie Arkell’s work, but it certainly looks interesting from the photos. Link. Related Julia Arkell – Paper Mache
Super-symmetrical Symet
Bumped into this while poking around YouTube. An exemplary build of a Trimet BEAMbot, as covered in my BEAM projects in MAKE Volume 06. The near-perfect symmetry of the construction (often overlooked by some builders) leads to a really smooth, consistent motion. The builder used 1000 uF caps and the FLED (Flashing LED) variant of […]