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David and Christiane Erwin, of Austin, TX, founded Mid-Century Modern door company Crestview Doors to provide other design conscious homeowners with an alternative to the colonial-style front doors you can get at a big box store (the Park house proudly sports the orange “Burbank” pictured below!). They now sell DIY Doorlite Kits so you too can build the door of your dreams. Read on to find out how this maker couple does it.
“About Adafruit video” by RocketBoom A lot of readers are likely familiar with Adafruit Industries, supplier and maker of many kits found in the Maker Shed. In addition to my role here at MAKE, as senior editor, I also work with Limor (Ladyada), helping her with the open source hardware kit business. I’ll have a […]
Steve Roberts is a maker OG (original gangsta). With his amazing Winnebiko and BEHEMOTH projects, and his longtime evangelizing of “high-tech nomadness,” he’s been a leading light in the maker movement for decades. I definitely count him as one of my great inspirations in pursuing artful-engineering (or is it engineered artfulness?) as a lifestyle. Steve […]
In response to our Maker Business coverage, I got a wonderful email from Fran Shea of Zeichen Press. She wanted to tell us about her foray into the small letterpress business she started with her sister-in-law, Jen. Being a huge letterpress fanboy, how could I resist? Here’s a short interview I conducted with Fran. — […]
When recently faced with the dauntingly tedious task of assembling my first-ever batch of electronics kits, I was lucky enough to have the ever-helpful eye of seasoned kit-maker Becky Stern close by. While observing my one-man assembly ‘process’, Becky advised a more efficient, modular assembly line technique using intermediary storage vessels better known as “plastic cups”. Streamlining the process left me with plenty of time to cook up some some unusually fancy title/motion graphics for the above-seen video.
For more info + related links, head over to –
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/03/collins_lab_kit-making.html
Our dynamic DIY duo, John and Erin, take stock and look toward the future of their intrepid little company. — Gareth Magnolia Atomworks, part 4: The aftermath, lessons learned, and the future By John Edgar Park and Erin Kelly-Park Laser cutting the Phi symbol on the original Mystery Box. Phi is the golden ratio, which […]
Illustration (by Alicia Traveria) for “The Many Arms of Promotion,” by Jenny Hart, Venuszine. Our pal, Jenny Hart, of Austin’s Sublime Stitching, has a monthly column called “Crafting a Business with Jenny Hart” over on Venuszine. There’s a lot of information here that’s applicable to any type of crafting/maker business. It seems to me that […]
