Apparently, tassels are going to be quite the fashion trend this year, and if you want to add the style without the high price, DIY is the way to go. Erica and Tamar of The 2 Bandits have a simple tutorial over on HonestlyWTF for making your own leather tassel belt.
MAKE and O’Reilly are co-sponsoring the Health 2.0 Developer Challenge in Boston on February 19. Come spend that day with developers, designers, researchers, care providers, patients, and anyone else interested in improving healthcare by building new applications and tools.
Steve Hoefer whipped up these fabulous print-at-home Valentine’s Day cards with particularly romantic patent illustrations. He writes: For a maker Valentine’s Day is no Halloween. Or even Christmas. In fact on the list of holidays makers get excited over Valentine’s Day is near last, right between Leif Erikson Day and Flag day. And while those […]
Steve Hoefer writes: What better way for a maker to celebrate Valentine’s Day than with a celebration of romantic inventions and innovations from times past complete with illustrations. The cover of each is an original, amusing, Valentine’s Day themed US patent that I’ve restored for high resolution printing. Inside are matching cheeky (and occasionally suggestive) […]
Thingiverse user Rob Ward of Melbourne created this teardrop light fixture out of laser-cut 3mm MDF. He also created a similar desk lamp. Very nice!
Sara of Creative Jewish Mom recently shared a tutorial for making these cute crochet covered buttons that add an extra special touch to a crochet project. She also shares her brilliant idea for creating a care card and mending yarn to add to your crochet gift so your recipient knows how to wash it.
Back in October 2010 Ben Heckendorn discovered that a hand-cranked LED flashlight had enough juice to recharge his smartphone. He recently revisited this idea on his show and updated the hack by adding a simple voltage regulating circuit using a Zener diode and a 100hm resister. He also added a USB port to plug in a microUSB recharging cable.
