HOW TO – Gourmet Vintage Cookies Recipes
Wow! Gourmet magazine has published their Favorite Cookies for each year from 1941 to 2008 – that’s a lot of cookies! These are Cinnamon Sugar Crisps from 1944 – just before the end of WWII.
Month: December 2008
HOW TO – Make “edge-lit” holiday cards
For the most recent Evil Mad Scientist project, Windell and Lenore show you how easy it is to make cool light-up greeting cards with little more than some LEDs and coin cell batteries and some basic paper craft supplies. You can even make multi-colored cards! Edge-Lit Holiday Cards
Macabre mouse mod
Daniel Pon’s “Paradox Mouse” is an amazing piece of macabre retro-tech art. Too bad those 9mm rounds he used in its construction have already been fired. Where’s the excitement in that? Really an impressive piece of work. While you’re on his site, check out his equally impressive “Neo Victorian” monitor and keyboard. After completing my […]
Jock Brandis makes life better with peanuts
Jock Brandis saw how people live and decided to make it better. Brandis created the Full Belly Project collaborated with Amy Smith‘s Engineering research group at MIT to develop an innovative and open source design to shell peanuts quickly and effectively. On a trip to West Africa to help a friend fix a solar-powered drinking […]
Season’s Greetings Machine
Cartoonist and illustrator Roy Doty has created a wonderful Christmas card each year since 1946. The card from 1971 seems well suited to a real-world re-Make over the holidays.
Weekend Project: USBattery
Here is a super small, sneaky storage device for your secret stuff. Thanks go to Andrew Lewis for the original article in Make: Volume 16 To download The USBattery MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete USBattery article MAKE 16 “USBattery”and you can see that in our digital edition.
Breathing Books
Bre Pettis writes: Edith Kollath is a friend of mine who is at the crossroads of art and microcontroller technology. She made the most beautiful books that breathe. Besides being beautiful objects, this show is also about the TSA. On a trip home to show the books in Germany, the TSA detained her and took […]
