How-To: Embroidered Headphones
Music obsession meets awesome DIY style with this gorgeous embroidered headphones project!
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How-To: Dyeing With Food Scraps
The Sewing Seeds Residency Program at the Textile Arts Center has been working on the “food Scraps” project, and as part of the project they’ve shared this great tutorial for using left-over onion skins as a natural dye.
Tissue Paper Animals in Stop Motion Animation
Japanese paper company Nepia use the fragile nature of tissue paper to their advantage in this amazing stop motion animation of tissue paper animals.
alt_quilts at the American Folk Art Museum
A few weeks ago, I visited the alt_quilts exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum, and I was totally blown away by what I saw.
From DeArmond to Photoresistors, the Optical Tremolo Box Looks and Sounds Great!
The Optical Tremolo Box was inspired by Charles Platt’s “Stomp Box Basics” article (MAKE Volume 15, page 82), which theorized using a light sensor to read patterns on a rotating disk to create a tremolo effect. Taking the project from theory to reality, MAKE Technical Editor Sean Ragan used a cadmium sulfide photoresistor to provide us with our light sensor. Watch the video to see – and hear! – this project in action.
OpenBeam Mini Kossel
The first deltabot in our tests printed well but it’s still a machine for the hands-on tinkerer.
“Cottage By The Sea” Ceramic Yarn Bowl
If you’re in the market for a unique yarn bowl then take a look at the handmade yarn bowls from Earth Yarn Fire, which are designed to meet the specific pottery needs of knitters and crocheters, like this amazing bespoke “Cottage by the Sea” yarn bowl.
