Whether you’ve got just a few crafting friends in your circle or a giant army of crafters, now is a good time to follow the lead of the Atomic Holiday Bazaar peeps and start organizing your own holiday bazaar. This ain’t your gramma’s craft show – well, unless your grandma is really cool. [Via] – […]
Frisnit.com shows you how to control a VCR with SMS (cell phone) – “Imagine it, it’s 3:15 on a weekday afternoon and you’ve just realised you’ve forgotten to set the video to tape ‘Pet Rescue’. Usually you would be condemned to an afternoon of misery and disappointment, knowing you had no heartwarming cute animal stories […]
Apartment based radio station, from Popular Science 1940 – “TO ENTERTAIN friends and neighbors in a New York apartment house, a group of professional radio performers operates a unique basement “broadcasting” station. Every Friday and Sunday evening, led by Les Paul and Earnie Newton, they go on the air from their homemade soundproof studio near […]
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Shadowgolem writes – “Home made Panoramic Jig. Using 1/8 Alum. Just finished it this morning. It weighs 12.3 Oz with the Manfrotto CR2 plate attached. Cost about 35$ for all the parts (I went with stainess where I could) and I have enough Alum. left over to make a second […]
Here’s how to make a six-legged creature with the abiliy to hook up to USB devices through any and all of its highly adjustable limbs – Link.
Meet the Texas Magnum, it appears to be the biggest slide rule in the world measuring in at 352 feet long, weighs 300 pounds and takes three men to slide… [via] – Link. Related: Slide rule guy – Link. Pictured here, the Nuclear bomb effects calculator (1962) and the Bristol Liquids SynchroValve Capity Calculator (1943) […]
I have neat friends that send me interesting things in the mail, after a bit of travel I came home to this rare 1951 book called “How to make an atomic bomb in your own kitchen–well, practically!” by Bob Bale – I just started reading it, and so far it’s a great, if you can […]
