If you liked our recent post about commercial fabric-jacketed cables, come check out the cool DIY methods we picked up from Jake von Slatt, beautifully demonstrated on his most recent...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Friday May 11th, 2012 6:15 AM
Categories: Electronics | 5 Comments
Longtime MAKE pal (and Volume 17 cover-guy) Jake von Slatt shows us an easy way to hack an old pair of eyeglass lenses into a set of goggles for use...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Monday November 14th, 2011 6:00 AM
Categories: Tools | 6 Comments
Jake von Slatt gives us a video tour of his finished propane and waste oil foundry furnace. I love the lamp post and lights. SO von Slatty! Final test of...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Tuesday February 16th, 2010 3:02 PM
Categories: Energy | 3 Comments
One downside to being a big fan of a particular maker is how long it can seem between new projects on his/her site, entries of a multi-part projects journal, what...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Saturday January 16th, 2010 10:14 PM
Categories: Makers, Workshop | No Comments
Our pal Jake von Slatt has a great gift guide up at the Steampunk Workshop. Now, all you steampunk haters out there can calm down. This isn’t a steampunk gift...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Tuesday December 1st, 2009 4:02 PM
Categories: General | 4 Comments
Every year, our pal Jake von Slatt does something pretty special for Halloween. Over at the Steampunk Workshop, he’s showing some of this year’s work in progress. Here’s a ghost...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Tuesday October 13th, 2009 11:38 PM
I'll give dollars to donuts that Jake Von Slatt owns a Yaris because he likes to say "YAAAAAAAAAAARis" in a pirate voice. Anyhoo, Jake was tired of the 'Yota dealership...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Monday September 21st, 2009 12:48 PM
Categories: Electronics, Energy | 8 Comments
At last year’s Maker Faire Bay Area, Nathan Johnstone of Abney Park debuted a violin at the Saturday night show modded by artisan (and MAKE contributor) Molly Friedrich. Later in...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Thursday May 21st, 2009 1:39 AM
Jake von Slatt carries a purse — and he’s man enough to call it that. He’s also geek-maker enough to want to properly organize its innards with desired compartments. I’ve...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Monday January 19th, 2009 1:34 PM
Categories: Tools | 4 Comments
Jake made this funky-cool workshop phone by uncasing a classic Bell System wallphone and refinishing and remounting the parts. As he points out, if you do a phone like this,...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Monday December 29th, 2008 1:05 PM
Categories: General | No Comments
I guess when you’re known for being a virtuosic fabricator of fabulous tech-mods in cyberspace, you’re kids aren’t going to let you slide by with a wriggling animatronic hand from...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Tuesday November 11th, 2008 3:37 PM
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Over at the Steampunk Workshop, Jake von Slatt has more pics of the Brass Lion recumbent steampunkified trike. The Brass Lion – Steampunk Recumbent Related: Brass Lion recumbent tricycle
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Friday June 13th, 2008 2:38 PM
Categories: Fun & Games | No Comments
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