Making
Celebrating maker-carer-user-hackers from around the world, to inspire local making, wherever you are.
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Junk Robotics with the Noughty Wasters
In March 2026, Local Making and Noughty Wasters teamed up to offer a Junk Robotics workshop for children aged 8–14. Helping to deliver the workshop were Jack, an apprentice builder; Noah, an electronics enthusiast and teen helper entering his final year of high school; and Caspian, a Noughty Wasters facilitator. The programme came about through…
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Zeal TEXPO
Realised that old games require very low and are just as inteersting! Street Fighter II was just xxKB. Devised Games / Icebreakers to learn peoples Names: Then we started playing the Classic game of snake and had the kids devise new rules for how to play. In this iteration, there are four player snake –…
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Transforming Waste at the Nothing Wasted Shed
Every Saturday morning for the past month and a half, we have been gathering at the Nothing Wasted Shed for a session we call Hang Out & Tinker. It’s a space to practise creative reuse, repair, and upcycling – a place for redesigning and repurposing waste and discarded technologies into tools for resilient, convivial, low-energy,…
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DESIGN 212: Local Making 2025
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Distributed Resource Centre (DRC) Publication
A document of an ever-growing resource centre of freely available resources for art and pleasure (commercial and household waste, fruit/vegetables and other food, skills, time, places/infrastructure) The photos in this document came out of a series of projects at and around Mairangi Arts Centre (MAC) between 2015-2020 [Supported, in part, by Creative Communities Scheme and…
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E-Waste Arcade
We run a weekly 3pm – 5:30pm Thursday drop-in tinker sessions at Zeal West, Henderson — a youth space where young people meet, hang out, and learn new skills. These sessions led to a two-day E-Waste Hackathon, exploring the design challenge: “How can we take the Zeal kaupapa to the streets?” We came up with…
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DESIGN 102G Object Biography Sprint
Thanks Leo and DESIGN 102G. Photos and scanned drawings
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DIY Server Infrastructure
There is a popular perception that the internet or “the cloud” is somewhere “out there”, and not somewhere “here” that you can see, touch and experience with your own senses. Contrary to this view “the cloud” and the internet are not somewhere in the sky or in outer space. They are here on earth.
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A simple method for finding out where in the world a website is being hosted
Instructions for running a “traceroute” to find out where in the world any website is being hosted.
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Frugal repair of high quality thermos
This style of stainless steel thermos is commonly found in opshops around Aotearoa (New Zealand) with a broken plastic lid. This page documents the process of finding various ways to repair this valuable object.
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Joule Thief & a New Xmas Tradition
We have been getting ‘waste’ from the Sustainability Trust, and learning about the industrialised processes required to break them down into raw materials and ‘recycle’ them. For example, with old CFL light bulbs, the glass from the tubes is crushed and turned into insulation fibreglass for houses, the mercury is made into dental amalgam, the…