Making a candle out of lard
Rob wanted to see if he could make a candle of our lard, and well, he did – Link.
Month: July 2006
The Open Prosthetics Project
Robots.net points to one of the sites we’ve been watching take off – The Open Prosthetics Project, the goal is to produce useful innovations in the field of prosthetics and give the designs away for free, here’s one of the latest – “Robert Haag has started another interesting project for his son Michael: a prosthetic […]
Digital picture frame
There are a lot of DIY LCD picture frame projects, but this is one of my favorites from MAKE Flickr photo pool member Fritzgutten, the frame is made from a bunch of old junk computer parts – Link. Related: LCD photo frame projects – Link.
Bottlecap Pincushions
Here’s a great way to reuse those plastic bottle caps from soda or water botttles — create a bottlecap pincushion. Perfect for when you have small projects and need to take those trusty pins on the road. There are lots of pictures for the step-by-step on verybigjen’s flickr. Link.
Portraits made from pills
Artist Andy Diaz Hope has a series of portraits made out of gel capsules – [via] – Link. Update: Andy writes – If you’re in New York, I’ll have some showing as part of a collaborative installation with Laurel Roth(www.loloro.com) @ Mixed Greens on 26th Street. Show opens on the 20th of July. Free Good […]
Supercapacitor contest!
Windell writes – “I’ve got a hundred supercapacitors and I haven’t decided what to make out of them yet. So, I’m holding a little contest: Come up with a cool supercapacitor project and you could get ten of these little beauties.” – Link.
DIY Screen glow
Simon writes – “I needed some light behind my monitor to ease the constrast at night. IKEA sells 1 foot long LED strip lights which work great for this.” – Link.
