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Who needs to wear boring old ties when you can refashion them? The ties in this Flickr set have all been silkscreened, cut apart, riveted, and stitched to distinctly new heights. Here at left are vintage World War II US Army officer’s tie with early gas mask imagery. At the right, more vintage gas mask […]
Flymissy posted this up to the CRAFT Flickr Pool, a great looking crochet flower necklace made from strips of recycled plastic grocery bags. Link. Related: Free Crochet Flower Patterns – Link. MAKE Post: Crochet Grocery Bay Tote – Link. MAKE Post: Shoes Made from Grocery Bags – Link.
Congratulations to MAKE pal I-Wei’s Steam Trilobite Tank winning the Gold Medal of Best of Show RoboGames 2006! – Link.
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Fibra posted up a cool homemade MIDI controller – “This is homebuilt MIDI controller for NI Traktor. The panel is made of laser cut / engraved, scratch-acid-UV-resistant, very durable plastic. Everything is built into black painted C64 case which was absolutely perfect for this use. “ – Link.
Girl on the Rocks has a made some great use out of those old Altoid tins, by covering them in felt! WE like the mini TV dinner look going on here. She uses them as a sewing kit and small storage tins where they are the “perfect size for a chapstick and maybe even a […]
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Jcoxon77’s writes – “View from the side camera on Pegasus I at approx 66,000ft. The Pegasus High Altitude Balloon project is a UK based amateur student run project that involves launching payloads to “Near Space” (between an altitude of 60,000ft (20km) and 325,000ft (99km). This is achieved through the use […]
Check out these amazing acrylic puzzles from MAKE Flickr photo pool member Fibra! They look like something Superman’s dad would give his kid – “This extremely difficult cube puzzle is made of 6 piecees of laser cut acrylic. I made it in different colours and 2 sizes, 35 and 55mm. It could be assembled/disasembled in […]
