Ken Murphy is a musician, tinkerer, and jack of all trades. He mentored a robotics club at a school and became obsessed. In the quest to make the simplest thing possible, he came up with blinky bugs.

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Cristen Andrews of shares with us her plastic bag crafts and shows us how to get started with crocheting plastic bags.

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Jesse and Nate explain how to make a sticks and stones contraption.

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In this video, I teach you how to make a spud gun. More info over at http://makezine.com/blog/archive/weekend_projects/

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Learn how to make straw flowers on vintage flower looms with Cathy Callahan of Cathy of California.

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Find out about all the fun activites in the CRAFT area during Maker Faire, May 3 & 4 at the San Mateo Expo Center.

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Maker Faire Austin is happening October 18-19 at the Travis County Expo Center. Find out all about the crafty activities in this week’s podcast.

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The Crucible is an organization that teaches people to be creative with fire. Watch the video to learn more

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Using recycled materials, kids made cool things at the Maker Faire!

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James Powderly sat down with me and walked me through the process of making throwies. They are easy to make and fun to throw on things. Graffiti Research Labs brought in a bus and they let people make throwies to throw on things. In this video, James explains that throwies are more than little lights to throw around. GRL takes it conceptually deeper by exploring political issues around prison time for graffiti artists and bringing them to communities around New York.

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