End-of-Year Gift Giving Ideas: DIY with MAKE Blog
By Giania • Dec 5th, 2007 at 11:43 pm • Category: Guides| Hot: |  |  | | | |
I’ve been meaning to get to slapping my holiday list up here – not so much in the hopes of getting the gifts that are on my list – so I can do some slobberingly glorifying reviews of some of my favorite things.
The first thing worth noting is this great article on the MAKE blog about DIY gifts. You’d figure that anything do-it-yourself would run on the cheap side, and for some of the items I suppose it is technically cheaper, but some of these projects are for those with cash to spare.
Nevertheless, nothin’ says lovin’ like somethin’ from the… workbench. Okay that’s lame. How about: Give the gifts that keep on geeking? Uhmm… Right, well, the overall gist here is that you can make all kinds of technologically inclined do-hickies for all the open source loving, raw part digging, LED enthusiasts in your life. It will cost you between $10 (for the LED menorah) and upwards of $3,000 (for a hardcore 3d printer).
Just think, for younger people on your list, you could get one of the kits and build it together. For the musically inclined nerd on your list, you could build the Daisy Open-source MP3 Player and build a sweet ass steampunk case for it out of an Altoids tin or a Weighted Companion Cube or something.
Any way you look, fun times to be had by all.
