Make: Hou July meeting is tomorrow
Joe Gourlay writes in to remind us that the next Make: Houston meeting is tomorrow, July 1st
Crafty Events
A Typographic Save the Date
It’s the last day of our DIY Wedding month, and tomorrow we move into Photography & Design. This little piece from Leandra’s wedding is the perfect crossover. Obie and Leandra have an epic love story, that just had to be told. So with clever storytelling and the use of Suitcase Fusion (a veritable library of […]
This Week in Craft Fairs
The weekly craft fair post! This weekend is 4th of July, so I think a lot of the craft fairs are pushed to the following weekend. Please add any events you know of to our online calendar, and if you have a call for vendors you’d like me to list in this post, please . […]
How-To: Create a Luscious Bridal Bouquet
My lovely friend Leandra was willing to let me create anything I wanted for her bridal bouquet this weekend. Her only requirement was that I used “all the colors in the rainbow.” So I went to the San Francisco Flower Mart, and picked out everything that called to me. The morning of her wedding, I […]
LVL1 Open Haus – 7.6.2010
Brian Wagner wrote in with the exciting news that LVL1, a hackerspace in Louisville, KY, has secured a location and are ready to open their doors.
Summit of Awesome Coverage: Day 2
photo by Hello Craft Thursday was the longest day of the Summit of Awesome, kicking off with breakfast at 8:30 and winding down with the final afternoon session at 5:00. I taught two sessions myself midday (Jewelry Making and Craft Writing + Publishing) but spent the rest of the time checking out as many other […]
A popup Fab Lab at the DMY International Design Festival Berlin
The annual DMY Festival exhibits the work of more than 400 designers and is extended by over 40 satellite events around Berlin. This year the event hosted an international group of designer-hackers who brought in a factory’s worth of machinery to set up a Maker Lab. CNC milling, laser cutting, thermal forming, bioplastic molding, physical computing with Arduino, custom circuit board design and etching with Fritzing, RepRap and MakerBot 3-d printing, stop-motion animation and just about every other means of prototyping was in house
