Krampus for Christmas
Macula offers a downloadable papercraft of Krampus, a creepy companion of Saint Nicholas.
Kids & Family
How the Drawdio was invented
Great background story on the Drawdio kit (we have this in the Maker Shed!)… JJ Silver (the inventor of Drawdio) writes – Imagine you could draw musical instruments on normal paper with any pencil (cheap circuit thumb-tacked on) and then play them with your finger. The Drawdio circuit-craft lets you MacGyver your everyday objects into […]
HOW TO – Snowflake Mittens
Folk Style author Mags Kandis shares this free pattern for mittens with an embroidered snowflake on the backs. They’re chunky weight yarn and look like a quick knit for a holiday gift.
Digitize Your Bedtime Stories
Chris Connors @ MAKE writes: Do you have an extra mp3 player or four in the house? Do your kids like to hear your bedtime stories? How about archiving them and setting up your kid with an audio player that will allow him or her to play them back at any time? With a couple […]
Dorkbot Seattle Evil Toy workshop
Josh Kopel made this determined little critter at the Dorkbot Seattle evil toy workshop. Check out his flickr set for more weird mashups. (Alas, my Furby expired on the operating table.)
Teddies in near space
MAKE reader James Coxon emailed to tell us about the recent Cambridge University Spaceflight project that teamed up university students with kids from the SPARKS science club to send four teddy bears aloft via helium filled high altitude balloon. The aim of the experiment was to determine which materials provided the best insulation against the […]
Science can be fun!
Popular Science’s Adam Weiner points out this entertaining example of Newton’s First Law of Motion, “a body continues to maintain its state of rest or of uniform motion unless acted upon by an external unbalanced force”. In this case, meaning those carts wanted to stay where they were.