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Our pal Bonnie Burton has a piece on StarWars.com on how to "Make Your Own Droidel Dreidel," a paper-crafted dreidel that looks like R2-D2. I wonder how you say "Happy Chanukah" in Droidspeak?
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Written by Gareth Branwyn on December 3rd, 2008 with comments disabled.
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Our pal Bonnie Burton has a piece on StarWars.com on how to "Make Your Own Droidel Dreidel," a paper-crafted dreidel that looks like R2-D2. I wonder how you say "Happy Chanukah" in Droidspeak?
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Written by Gareth Branwyn on December 3rd, 2008 with comments disabled.
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I'm a firm believer that designers are makers at heart, but that might just be because I went to design school. The Core77 design blog just published their gift guide (77 items under $77), and plenty of the fancy designer items would make great remakes for the holidays. Designer products are looking more and more maker-y lately, just check out that plunger lamp!
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Written by Becky Stern on December 3rd, 2008 with comments disabled.
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Here are the MAKE elves back from volume 04 by Robert Ullman - I put larger versions up on Flickr if you want to use them in a cool holiday project. If you do use them, put a photo in the MAKE Flickr photo pool - we just might send you something special from the Maker Shed!
Written by Phillip Torrone on December 2nd, 2008 with comments disabled.
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William sent in this page detailing how to replace the bulbs of Christmas light strings with LEDs -
I begin by cutting the light sockets off the string about three inches from the socket and I store them in a box. There is usually a wire that goes from one end of the string to the other (two such wires if you're lucky to have a string that has an electrical socket at the end of the string), which I wind onto a spool. Sometimes you can find wire the right shade of green wire at electronics stores. I find that 22AWG size stranded wire (make sure it is not solid) works the best.Though LED christmas lights can now be purchased relatively cheaply, this could make for a neat holiday project - LED Christmas lights Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Holiday projects | Digg this!
Written by Collin Cunningham on December 2nd, 2008 with comments disabled.
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Over at the Cool Tools blog, Kevin Kelly just reviewed How to Build an Igloo: And Other Snow Shelters by Norbert E. Yankielun. I really wish I had this book as a kid; snow forts are so much fun!
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Written by Becky Stern on November 28th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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Jenny @ CRAFT posted up this odd appetizer, and I'm strangely fixated on its almondy, spiny pinecone-ness. Maybe it's because I haven't seen a real pinecone in a while. Anyway, the pinecone cheeseball by Heidi Kenney certainly has visual interest on its side!
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Written by Becky Stern on November 28th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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Jeffery Rudell shows how to make this holiday reindeer out of fusible interfacing over on Craft Stylish. You could do this to make any origami model sturdier; it's a neat texture, too.
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Written by Patti Schiendelman on November 13th, 2008 with no comments.
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