If your workspace is tight on space, but you still want to incorporate easy access storage for your tools and supplies, check out this tutorial from Christin of Pregnant … With Power Tools for building a peg board “leaves” system. The panels of peg board can be used on both sides, and open and close […]
We’ve been making allusions for a while now to a new area of the MAKE website, “to be launched soon.” Monday is blast-off! So, what are we launching? It’s our new! improved! (now with more WIN!) answer to the Make: Projects area. The new Make: Projects platform will be a place where we, Maker Media, […]
If you’ve ever seen the Emmy-award-winning British geek sitcom The IT Crowd, you’ve probably spent half of your time scanning the background to pick out all of the great nerd collectibles and high-techery crammed into every scene. On the Channel4 website for the show, they have a zoomable, pannable tour of the IT basement and […]
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 […]
