John Martin, of Reallusion, makers of iClone, the real-time animation software I wrote about a few days ago, has kindly donated ten copies of iClone4 PRO to give away to MAKE readers! How exciting. iClone4 PRO retails for $199, so this is quite an offer. So, what can iClone4 PRO do? Here’s a video that […]
Lensbaby, who make fun lenses for DSLRs (including, not coincidentally, a pinhole simulator lens) are offering a pinhole photo contest. Pinhole photography can be beautiful, ethereal, and even magical, and takes us back to the earliest origins of image making. Help us celebrate this wonderful photography medium just in time for Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day! […]
The winners of MAKE Volume 20‘s MakeShift challenge have just been announced. Here is how the challenge read, in case you missed it: The Scenario: You belong to an amateur but dedicated group of “urban archaeologists” who have made it their mission to document the vanishing details of your city’s history. You notice while driving […]
We’re gearing up (gawd, we have got to stop using that!) for the launch of the Make: Robot Build. We sent Dispatch #2 of the project newsletter out today. We have nearly 400 people signed up and we’re already starting to hear people’s ideas for the build. We’re psyched! Starting next week, we’ll get into […]
Have you always wanted to build a robot but didn’t know how? Have you always wanted to turn those old Debbie Gibson CDs into something useful? Got a use for a $500 gift card? For all these reasons and more, you should check out The Make: Robot Build Contest. As we announced last week, the […]
These cute mascots are all about cheering on the actual Winter Olympics, but they also could serve as inspiration for the Yarn Harlot’s Knitting Olympics. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee is challenging knitting “athletes” to push themselves to the limit of their abilities and to take up a new knitting project that they can complete in 17 days. […]
CRAFT and iLoveToCreate.com have teamed up to present to you the Crafty Chica Challenge: Love Shrine! Kathy Cano-Murillo, the Crafty Chica, has been making love shrines for the past 15 years. Using everything from mint tins to cigar boxes to even kitchen drawers, she transforms them into colorful art assemblages filled with objects, trinkets, mementos […]
