DIY Postal scale…
I really like this low tech scale, you use the known weight of coins to make a balance to figure out the weight of your mail. [via] Link part of the Toys from Trash site.
Craft & Design
From traditional crafts to modern crafts, we’re covering news and interesting projects to educate you and keep you inspired. Design trends and pop culture related projects are here to inspire.
Star Wars Crafts
There are tons of kid (and adult) friendly crafts over at starwars.com. I love this Chewie Tissue Box Cozy or the cuddly felt Yoda doll. From the site, “Make one-of-a-kind Star Wars crafts using everyday materials just laying around the house. Print out masks to use for your own Star Wars plays, construct your very […]
Knitting Podcasts
Whip up has got a nice round up today of great knitting podcasts to check out. Link.
Crochet Taxidermy Art
Currently on display at the Zacheta National Gallery of Art (Feb 14 – April 9) in Warsaw, Poland, is the crochet artwork of Louise Weaver. Weaver crochets “skins” on tops of various 3d objects including taxidermists’ forms of native Australian animals. [ via ] Link.
Cigar box guitar photos
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Pasque writes – “I am building guitars out of cigar boxes with my students at Roberto Clemente in Ann Arbor, MI. Here are some photos of the prototype I built at home (now updated with photos of my students’ guitars). I went begging and got a bunch of wooden fingerjointed […]
Technical Video Rentals…
Travis writes in with some good news, features, and a contest on TechnicalVideoRental, a video rental service for Makers – “…we released our new website, which supports customer ratings, viewer feedback, AND editorial reviews…We’re very happy that in two weeks we’ve already gotten over 70 reviews, good, bad, and ugly. From the “do yourself a […]
Homemade submarine…
I can’t tell exactly what’s going on here, but it looks like someone in Germany made their own submarine from scratch. Does anyone know more about this, or why it was created? Thanks Alex! Original page & translated.
