Month: October 2006

Mullet Wig 1987

Megan Reardon has her hallowig mentioned in the premier issue of crafts and it put a bee in my bonnet to make a wig. It turns out that I’m reeeaaaaallly slow at knitting, so I’m releasing my plans for mullets to take over the world in the hopes that someone else will make it in […]

A better mousetrap!

A better mousetrap!

We’ve covered mouse traps that do not hurt mice in the past, and here’s another one to add to the collection, Scott writes – “This mousetrap design was used by my uncle decades ago, when his graduate students were studying territorial behavior of rodents in Iowa and Wisconsin. As I recall, they used hundreds of […]

DIY Door unlocker

DIY Door unlocker

Dheera writes – “This is a home-made door unlocker that unlocks a college dorm door with a password entered on a PS/2 keyboard on the other side. It is entirely microcontroller (PIC16F630) based and is ideal for the majority of people who are forbidden to modify the locks on their doors, as this simply uses […]

The week in MAKE

There’s lots of Halloween things going on this month on the MAKE & CRAFT blogs. Don’t forget to enter our MAKE & CRAFT Halloween contest. Anyone, anywhere can enter, and depending on what type of maker or crafter you are, you can enter all or just some of the contests. Here are a few fun […]