For Makers, Creators and Doers

From the creator of the wonderful Secret Life of Machines of the 1970's. This is a really fun and relaxing series that goes in-depth in a very approachable and non-rigid way of various componants and tools that would likely come in handy for a maker.

I'm making a Halloween costume that features my head inside a box. All good if In use my hands to support said box, but I'd like my hands to be free.

This seems like a solved problem, got any hints on how I might support the box so its stable while leaving my arms and hands free?

It looks enormous! I can't even begin to tell you the sheer breadth of disciplines you'll see there. Leatherworking, welding, chainsaw wood milling, blacksmithing, sewing, glassblowing, jewelrymaking, silversmithing, resin-building, timber-framing, knifemaking, machining, woodworking, plasma cutting...

OK, it turns out I could and did begin to tell you. Never mind, just look at the schedule (https://catskillmountainmakerscamp.com/maker-camp-2023...) and demonstrators (https://catskillmountainmakerscamp.com/demonstrators).

Hello Making Friends

I am making a footprint for a tent from tyvek: should I hem the exterior so that the fabric folds over from the top side and is sewn (or taped) to the underside? What about adding gromets?

I am thinking that the hem would keep ground water from seeping between the tent and foot print if it were to rain.

I am also thinking this is too much work for very little benefit, and an unfinished edge is simple, easier, and just as durable (this is freaking House wrap).

Thoughts?

Raspberry Pi Zero with camera and a relay in a desklamp.

One of my first attempts at making something the moved when I told it to.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/66247 because I'm proud and like sharing it!

Thought I'd share this one as my first post here because it makes me smile every time.

The pattern is Lorelei Cardigan by Deni Sharpe who is one of my favourite crochet designers, her stuff is always fairly simple to make and just looks good.

So I'd made my own mustard yellow version of this and worn it basically every day for a whole year (you can probably see it's a bit worse for wear in this photo, and believe me I've worn it a LOT more since!) and my grandma was very taken with it. Her favourite colour is blindingly bright red, so it was obvious what I had to do.

Most of the red one was made while doing a day-long marathon of the LotR extended editions, and my wrists were sore the next day. But the whole thing worked up pretty quickly and I reckon I managed to get her pockets attached much more securely than I ever did mine, so that's a win!

Needless to say, she loved it. Major granddaughter points right there.

I've done lots of block quilts but never pieced one together like this. It's going to have a moon and stars as well, possibly some clouds if I feel ambitious

If there's one thing makers have, it's a lot of stuff. Both tools to create things, and created thing themselves! I'm really curious what storage solutions everyone has used. We're thinking about a furniture/house rearranging and I'm going to need to commit to a system soon.

I've looked at #gridfinity (https://gridfinity.xyz/) and it seems ok, but definitely skewed more toward the small parts, electronic components and 3d printing world. I have a lot of woodworking tools, fasteners and hardware and home DIY stuff as well as electronics, so I need a much more holistic solution. Right now I'm leaning towards a French cleat system along a couple walls and just building custom shelves/boxes for big stuff and then trying to find a way to organize all my smart parts and just attach that system to the cleats, but I definitely want to see more ideas. I've looked at Harbor Freight boxes and some custom 3d printed solutions, but post your organization systems here!

Tiny balsa plane in silicone lit by one RGB LED

Some experiments with addressable LEDs and silicone tube diffusion

It's amazing how many hacks there are for the LACK. Ikea hacks in general amuse me greatly. :)

3D Printed adapter to mount an ESP32 Cam to a crazy door peephole turret thing.

This is a terrible proof of concept for a bot that can steer and drive with just one hobby servo motor.

A failed and\or abandoned attempt to create a linear actuator from tape measures.

Like I said yesterday, trying to get some content on here while we wait on more creators to join. But if you haven't found his channel yet, basically everything Under Dunn does is gold.

Stumbled upon this on YouTube and thought it might fit here, but happy to hear the community's thoughts on if bushcraft fits into Making. Obviously I believe in a wide tent, and what is bushcraft if not outdoor Making with basic tools?

Full disclosure: I'm literally just stealing content from Reddit so there's some stuff to browse here while the user base builds up. I didn't create this, but luckily there's a Thingiverse link so you don't have to give them traffic if you don't want to or you're like me and can't after June (mobile user).

But anyway, I love simple little usable 3d prints like this. Figurines are cool, but function over form is like my personal printing preference.

Last one for today, not trying to make this community all about my site, just found it early.

Still kind of working on this bot but haven't put much time into it lately.

This one is in a cabinet now waiting for me to find a place with more space to set it up in. Probably not economical to buy an MP Select just for this but since I had a busted one this build cost next to nothing and provided hours of entertainment.