Kid Crafts: Woven Felt Coasters
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Kids & Family
Kids Crafts: Thanksgiving Bread Basket Liner
Remember those hand-shaped turkeys that you made in elementary school art class? They’re back and cuter than ever in this Thanksgiving bread basket liner tutorial!
Sugar Rockets in Philly
MAKE reader Ian Kimball of Philadelphia shares photos and video of his sugar rocket build experience. “They flew magnificently!” he reports. Next up for Ian and his boys: the Nuclear Fusor.
Brew, Charge, Play: New Items in the Maker Shed!
Thirsty for new products? The Maker Shed online store is a tall, refreshing glass of cool items for the entire family. If your passion is craft brewing, you’re in luck! We recently received a slew of products that will kickstart a hobby in beer making. We have Bruxelles Blonde, Chestnut Brown Ale, and Everyday IPA, […]
Animatronics Kits for Learning
I just stumbled across the Star★Bot animatronic platform kit out of the community of makers in Florida. It’s designed for kids to “create animatronic robots and learn microcontrollers, mechanics and papercraft.” Its Kickstarter campaign ends in a few hours! Pat Starace developed the kits at FamiLAB “Central Florida’s provider of space, tools, and community for creative technical learning and projects.” (All the organizers for the Orlando Mini Maker Faire met at FamiLAB.)
How-To: Pizza Nachos
I like pizza, I like nachos, and they both come in triangle-shaped servings. If these pizza nachos were a snake it would’ve bit me.
Encouraging Girls to Hack and Make
After working as a hardware engineer, attending grad school at Harvard, and working in science and engineering education for 10 years, I decided to go back to my community last year and start a program for girls.
