Last week I shared my tips for selecting the best images for craft tutorials. This week, I am going to share my tool box, as prompted by a reader comment from dsc: Thank you so much for this tutorial on tutorials! My only question is how the pictures were taken in the shots where you […]
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: […]
Our very own Becky Stern is one of those overachieving crafters who always takes things to the next level. Not only does she knit with a machine, she programs custom-made patterns for said knitting machine. And now she’s stitched up some sweet padded pouches with the results and has them listed on Makers Market. Becky’s […]
From a January, 2010 piece on DesignBoom: Hook and loop fasteners have become commonplace features of both industry and households. However, they have one snag: they are too weak for many applications. Hook and loop fasteners made of spring steel have now been developed at the Institute of Metal Forming and Casting of the Technische […]
Summer is here, and I was looking for something to do with the kids. They raved about how much fun the rocket launching was at Maker Faire in San Mateo, and I wanted to bring a little bit of that fun home. All I needed to do was build my kids a kit version of Rick Schertle’s compressed air rocket launcher that was featured in MAKE Volume 15.
From squirrels on wheels to pigs with wigs the whimsical knit toy world of crafter Anna Hrachovec of Mochimochi Land comes together in her new book, Knitting Mochimochi. As a frequent contributer to CRAFT, I’ve always enjoyed the cute knit toys Anna creates. She blows my mind even more with this book where 20 new […]
In the Make: Online Toolbox, we focus mainly on tools that fly under the radar of more conventional tool coverage: in-depth tool-making projects, strange, or specialty tools unique to a trade or craft that can be useful elsewhere, tools and techniques you may not know about, but once you do, and incorporate them into your […]
