Make your own notebooks!

My Instructable tutorial shows how to make your own notebooks which can save you lots of money, if you often purchase Field Note and Moleskine notebooks. Also, this tutorial gives you the basic structure of a notebook that you can personalize and make in an infinite number of ways with your choice of the cover materials, inner paper and type of string.

Instructable: How to make & view 3D Stereograms with your iphone

My draft tutorial:

How to make & view 3D Stereograms with your iphone

Somehow got featured on the instructables home page under the play category and I got a free 1 year pro membership! Any spelling mistakes in my instructable are strategically placed and are in no way by accident…

Fixers Collective at Maker Faire

I’m sorry to say that I did not take my digital camera to Maker Faire last weekend and I have no images of a booth to contribute to this post. But I did want to write to you about an organization called the Fixers Collective from Brooklyn. If you have broken electronics or gadgets, you can take them to this group, and they will show you how to fix them. There’s a lot of value in fixing things, both by saving money on the purchase of a new item and the sense of accomplishment by restoring something you want to use. I’m really big into analog cameras, so I struck up a conversation with these fellows regarding my Mamiya M645. This camera has been having trouble advancing film to the next frame which results in double or triple exposures. There are little gears in the film back that often slip if the teeth are worn out. I’m definitely considering going to Fixer Collective space to see if I can learn how to fix this camera. I’ll post an image (below) that I took with the Mamiya when it was working properly.

KidWind @ Maker Faire

This project is particularly inspiring to me because it reminds me of the immense fun I had building things with moveable parts out of Legos and K’NEX (which wasn’t always easy). Of course, at the time, I was too young to understand (or want to explore) the science behind it. I also admire their tremendous efforts in putting together a comprehensive curriculum to accompany the wind turbine kits.

Maker Faire Favorites

Hey now, any of you catch these particular oddities?

The roving cupcake folk.  A home-made CNC routing machine, small enough to live at home, cheap enough I could manage.  Some crating the equipment showed up in (I do like crates).  An unfortunate sign noticed just outside the fair.  [click to enlarge. duh.]

btw.  I DID spell check the burnt-in text, boy will I be embarrassed if I missed something.

Thanks – David