Anna writes – Hi – I don’t usually self-promote, but I made a toy kitchen for my daughter entirely from scratch using primarily corrugated cardboard that was salvaged from the dumpster. I covered the pieces in contact paper and joined them together using no glue, no nails, nothing but clever joining cuts, which makes the […]
Handy dandy DIY IR widget – The IR Widget captures the infrared signals used by remote controls. It operates in a way that makes it compatible with modern multitasking operating systems. It is able to determine the carrier frequency and demodulate the carrier in the digital or analog domain. The captured information can be used […]
Alice at Futuregirl has a new pattern set up in her store to sew up this cute felt stuffie seahorse. For just $5, the PDF pattern includes instructions and pattern pieces to make adult and baby seahorses. Link.
Jenny Ryan and I had a great time giving out Maker Faire Blue Ribbons to the crafty participants at Maker Faire in Austin. I’m posing here with 13 year old Stephanie Mallard who was fantastic presenting her craft demo on how to make duct tape iPod cozies. Look for her article in an upcoming issue […]
DIY Life has a link wrap-up piece of how-tos on building xylophones from everything from pipes, bottles, wood, wrenches, even stone. Build a xylophone out of almost anything – Link Related: Wrench Xylophone – Link Xylophone Windchime – Link
Here are a couple of awesome (and cheap!) kits that would make great gifts for fans of papercraft (or Ukiyo-e art). Tatebanko Paper Diorama – [Thanks, Patti!] Link
Rich Burridge writes: This is a GreaseMonkey script that works with your website. If enabled, it will replace the contents of your main page with a list of categories and under each category heading, will be a list of all your posts to that category. Very handy to see everything you’ve created in the past, […]
