Crayon cookies
Children’s craft site Kiddley has a great solution for all those broken crayons. Melt them into crayon cookies for more coloring life. Link.
Month: July 2006
HOW TO – Make steel rust quickly
Hal writes – “You posted about removing rust. Here’s how to put it back on, but with potentially dangerous chemicals involved.” – Link. Read the warning / disclaimer, be smart.
Ice bikes
Over in the MAKE forums Bf5man put together a nice collection of ice bikes – “There’s some challenges as biking on ice or snow that just call for creative solutions. I was looking for some pictures of bikes with rear tracks and here’s some funny bikes i’ve came across. It might inspire some makers! The […]
Freezer paper stencil with bleach
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Sillyred writes – “Freezer paper stencils are taking over the crafty blogosphere. And then last week I saw on Make Blog an interesting use for bleach. Combining the two ideas, I took some time to decorate a t-shirt for Fuller using a freezer paper stencil and bleach as the medium. […]
Controlling LED arrays on TCP/IP networks
Spark Fun has an awesome internet controlled color LED matrix how-to – “Open-Source methods for embedded TCP/IP networking. This tutorial will show you how to control a full color LED matrix from anywhere in the world using a Java script on the remote computer and an ARM development board connected to a tri-color serial LED […]
HOW TO – Electrolytic rust removal
ToolNut writes – “This is a relatively simple, safe and cheap way to remove light or heavy rust from any ferrous object. I used this process to restore an old wood plane that I bought for $1 (it looked totally un-usable because of the rust). As opposed to grinding, heavy wire brushing and acid bath […]
HOW TO – Make incredible pictures (without Photoshop)
Old camera tricks from pre-PhotoShop/GiMP days – Link.
