Printable Mini-T Beams
Thingiverse user Pieter Bos of the Netherlands printed these Mini-T beams based off the MakerBeam profile, originally added to Thingiverse by Luis.
DIY Projects
How-To: Carve a Wooden Spoon
I love the wooden spoon-carving instructions on this bushcraft knife-maker’s website. Makes me want to make one. Our magazine editor-in-chief Mark Frauenfelder is a spoon carver, but I’ve never tried my hand at it. Looks like fun.
How-To: Skull Truffles with Custom Mold and Walnut Brains
Our favorite maker holiday, Halloween, is right around the corner, and Make: Projects community member Marc Brownlow shared his awesome Skull Truffles how-to with us just in time. In true maker spirit, just making the truffles wasn’t enough — he uses polymer clay to sculpt little skulls and then food-grade silicone to make the mold. […]
In the Maker Shed: Brew it Yourself Root Beer Kit
Looking for some DIY fun for the family? The Brew it Yourself Root Beer Kit from the Maker Shed includes everything you need to brew root beer right in your kitchen. Make up to four gallons of delicious, old fashioned, naturally carbonated root beer at home in your own soda bottles.
New in the Maker Shed: Discover Electronics Kit Version 2
Sparkle Labs’ Discover Electronics Kit is back in the Maker Shed and better than ever. New components, documentation, and an accompanying online video course will have you building projects and reading schematics in no time. Everything you need to make a light detector, led flasher, noise maker and more is right in the box.
camSlider Open Source Motion Control Slider
German maker Stefan Kohler built the camSlider motion control slider to take incredible panning stop motion animations and motion control video. The project is open sourced and available on his website.
Atlanta Maker Alliene Bouchard
A few weeks have passed since the Atlanta Mini Maker Faire 2011 and I’ve been enjoying some follow-up visits with some of the many makers I met at the event. Time was short during the one-day fair, so I didn’t get to visit much with Alliene Bouchard, an Atlanta-based maker. Alliene (pronounced Ollie-yen) impressed me […]
