Emeka sent in this nice DIY battery backup for your computer, or any other device. The article is based on 220v, but could easily be adapted for 110v. South Africans, as elsewhere in Africa are experiencing almost daily – “load-shedding”. The country cannot meet the demand for electricity resulting in daily scheduled power-outages nationwide. Make […]
Gerbera Designs posted a great step by step tutorial on how to make this vinyl pouch. via Indie Fixx Related How to Make a Recycled Vinyl Pouch with Super Naturale
Here are all the details for the next MAKE NYC meeting! What can a group of Makers do with a tank of helium? We’re not sure! Care to find out? The sixth Make:NYC Meeting includes: Challenge: Blimps You’ve got brains, we’ve got blimps. Two teams will compete to make an ordinary RC blimp perform extraordinarily. […]
Shimon Schocken gave a really interesting Google Tech Talk titled From Nand to Tetris in 12 Steps. In the video, he describes a course where students design a complete virtualized computer system from scratch, building from the humble nand gate, to a functional cpu and memory architecture, to compiler software and an operating system, all […]
Via core77, whose Aart van Bezooyen writes: Designartist Osian Batyka-Williams discovered that some restaurants change their cutlery as often as every nine months (!) With The Cutlery Chair he demonstrates how these hard-to-recycle, unwanted pieces can be turned into a unique piece of furniture. It looks like it could be simple to remake this with […]
Thanks to everyone who entered in our free giveaway yesterday for the new book, PEEPS®! Recipes and Crafts to Make with Your Favorite Marshmallow Treat by Charity Ferreira and published by Chronicle Books. Here are the 5 lucky winners: Lindsey Jackson, Julie Peraza, Alicia Horn, Alison Traina, and Elizabeth Marsten. Congratulations!
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories has a fantastic tutorial on how to make these little light-up origami balloons by actually tracing the circuit paths on the origami paper itself. I can imagine a driveway path illuminated with such things, or perhaps just a big pile of them, happily glowing. Related: HOW TO – Make LED Throwies
