This morning, Ed Baafi, Amon Milner, Jacob William, and a number of the youth leaders at Learn 2 Teach, Teach 2 Learn developed an idea of how to teach electricity to youth with a new kit idea. What we are looking to do is reinvent the Alternative Energy module in the summer program. The kit […]
Tripod: a student entry from last year’s contest. The EPA just announced its newest lifecycle building challenge: Enter the third year of the Lifecycle Building Challenge competition, to shape the future of green building and facilitate local building materials reuse. Submit your innovative project, design, or idea for reducing to conserve construction and demolition materials […]
One of the great things about Maker Faire is the opportunity to meet clever people and their fascinating projects. Often you have a conversation with a person who is highly skilled in an area you have never really considered before. This was the case when I met up with Jerry Etheridge of the North Texas […]
Remember when Kim Werker put the call out to crafters to help get the message to Joss Whedon that she’d like to interview him? Well, it worked! Visit CrochetMe to read the whole wonderfully geeky thing, which includes gems like this (on knitting versus crochet): It’s an age-old war. Like the werewolves and the vampires. […]
Instructables has announced an amazing contest they’re running with Sears. Called “The Craftsman Workshop of the Future Contest,” all you have to do to be eligible is post an Instructable that uses tools! The grand prize winner will get a $20,000 Sears gift card (no, that’s not a typo). Ten runners up will each get […]
Jenna Faden and Jess Horton, recent Fine Arts graduates of Umass Amherst showed their recent work at the Duxbury Art Association Winter Craft Showcase. Together, they are pickled. They took a brief break from sales and knitting to show their work, saying “we’re really just grandmothers in disguise”, told some stories and returned to the […]
Raelinda Woad is a storyteller and jewelry maker. She began in jewelry in the 1980’s working her way up from bead sorter to jewelry maker’s assistant. On New Years Eve of 1989 Raelinda had a chocolate induced vision: Become a storyteller! Two years later she was sharing her ‘true stories that haven’t quite happened yet’ […]
