The episode of the Martha Stewart Show, with MAKE Editor-in-Chief Mark Frauenfelder, aired again today. If you’re coming to MAKE for the first time as a result of seeing the show: Welcome! Make yourself at home. If you’d like to learn more about Maker Media, our magazine MAKE, our websites Make: Online and CRAFT, and […]
Mike from Uptownmaker has complied a list of “18 Essential skills for a Maker” – inspired by Geekdad’s “100 Essential Skills for Geeks“. Uptownmaker’s list is geared towards electronics projects – good stuff. Here are some of my favorites… 2. Spot valuable salvage- Not only knowing where to get it, but knowing it when you […]
Phillip, Phil, pt, MISTER Torrone, the man frequently behind the camera (and other happenings) at adafruit industries, is back in orbit over Planet MAKE. He makes planetfall tomorrow and we’re absolutely thrilled to have him back. There’s nobody else like PT. His understanding of the DIY world, the blogosphere, digital media, open source hardware, the […]
Inspired by the sartorial geekiness of Bre Pettis and Cory Doctorow, this enterprising desktop fabber printed out his own glasses on a Makerbot. Glasses by langfordw [via adafruit]
We got this message from Clifton Burt: The Northeast Portland Tool Library is a non profit lending library of tools located at NE 20th and Killingsworth Sreet (Portland, OR). Open on Saturdays and Wednesdays, the checkout of the tools is free; it works just like a lending library for books. It began a year ago […]
Scott at Laughing Squid writes: Star Wars Uncut is a collaborative project where Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope has been chopped up into 15 second clips, which were then claimed by 472 people who are now recreating each segment and then uploading them to the project so that they can be stitched together […]
In the latest Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools, Erik Knutzen, from Homegrown Evolution, reviews Backwoods Home Magazine. Imagine Martha Stewart as a gun-toting Libertarian and you’ll have a good notion of the editorial outlook of Backwoods Home Magazine. What makes this magazine useful, regardless of your political persuasion, is the wealth of information written by practitioners […]
