WD-40 “Now & Then”
This is pretty cool WD-40 has a “Now and Then” pack via Giz… To celebrate WD-40’s heritage and honor multiple generations of WD-40 users, we’re offering you a 1950s-style WD-40 Collector’s Can in the Now & Then Twin Pack.
Toolbox
Maker’s “Notebook” on Evernote
As was mentioned on Twitter recently, Evernote now has a MAKE-branded “Notebook” section, a collection of tutorials from Make: Projects that you can add to your personal Evernote account. Many of us are big Evernote fans here, so it’s great to have this partnership. Make: Projects on Evernote is part of their new Evernote Trunk, […]
Micro mill from scrap aluminum
Our bud Kent Barnes turned us on to this maker’s blog: Sir Richard’s Tool Kit. There are a number of nice projects here, including this sweet little micro mill made from scrap aluminum: It was a long time in the making, but I have finally finished putting together the micro mill that I started about […]
How-To: Pegboard “Leaves” for Tool Organization
Building these simple pegboard leaves for tool organization in a small space.
Coming Monday: The Make: Projects platform
We’ve been making allusions for a while now to a new area of the MAKE website, “to be launched soon.” Monday is blast-off! So, what are we launching? It’s our new! improved! (now with more WIN!) answer to the Make: Projects area. The new Make: Projects platform will be a place where we, Maker Media, […]
MAKE, CRAFT, O’Reilly spotted on The IT Crowd set
If you’ve ever seen the Emmy-award-winning British geek sitcom The IT Crowd, you’ve probably spent half of your time scanning the background to pick out all of the great nerd collectibles and high-techery crammed into every scene. On the Channel4 website for the show, they have a zoomable, pannable tour of the IT basement and […]
WWI “Field Sketching Case”
We keep on ending up in the Wayback Machine when looking at scrolling map technology (and I bet we could go a lot farther back). First we started with the 1930s scrolling car navigator, then the 1920s wrist-borne map scroll. Here, Make: Online reader “TH” describes a WWI era (1914) scrolling device for map making: […]
