I’m totally digging Andrew Salomone’s new project on CRAFT: In Hans Holbein’s famously inexplicable painting, “The Ambassadors,” a large anamorphic skull appears to lie across the floor at the feet of two dandified renaissance gentlemen. The skull appears in correct perspective only when the painting is seen from an acute angle looking diagonally down from […]
For Halloween I’m dressing as Elly Jackson from the pop-synth group La Roux. Elly wears a “neo cameo” necklace by Australian designer Sylvie Markovina, consisting of two layers of laser-cut acrylic on a brass chain. With a flick of my vector graphics muscles and access to a laser cutter, I made my own version to […]
My iPad deserves better than the ugly beige plastic cookbook holder I’ve been using to prop it up. Instead of splurging on an expensive pre-made one, I decided to build a one-of-a-kind brushed aluminum stand. A trip to my local hardware store yielded the channel aluminum, flat bar, and hardware fittings I’d need. Cutting, drilling, and finishing with my Dremel made this beauty come together in a single afternoon. The iPad is very secure in this stand, thanks to the angles involved and a bit of gravity.
Good news everyone! LVL1 is going to deliver a box of used balloon gizmos to Europe! What’s that you say? Europe has had enough of our crap already? I think not! We’ve officially started the LVL1 White Star Trans-Atlantic Balloon Service with one goal: To send a small robotic balloon across the Atlantic Ocean and […]
Martha has a great little tute up about how to make your own chalkboard paint by adding tile grout to regular latex paint. What’s the most ridiculous object (besides a chalkboard) you could cover with with chalkboard paint? Or have seen covered with it? Maybe we should have a contest.
Sean Ragan has done a lot of cool projects for us here on Make: Online. One of my faves is his shrink-film gaming minis tutorial. And even better, in it, he makes gaming pieces for one of my all-time favorite Steve Jackson Games’ classic sci-fi wargames: OGRE! We’re slowly, but surely, moving all of the […]
Steve Coast, founder of OpenStreetMap, is going to doing some authoring for us on this unique, editable world map project. Steve started OSM in 2004 and has been deeply involved in it ever since. He lives in Denver with his wife, where he also enjoys hang gliding and collecting hammers. – Gareth Branwyn OpenStreetMappers in […]
