Band-Aid Bear
Laurie spotted jbl thistle’s Band-Aid Bear on Flickr. This little guy is made with band-aids, thread, wool stuffing and sewn by machine and hand.
Year: 2008
DIY PCB motor drill
Gio points out this unusual recipe for a circuit board drill using an an old cassette tape motor – it actually looks pretty comfy to hold, but any malfunction in that coupler/drill bit would likely not be comfy – be sure to wear the appropriate safety gear, suit of armor, etc. – Make@home PCB drill. […]
MAKE 2008 gift guide from MAKE volume 16 & “The value of a good hands on project”
Here’s the MAKE 2008 gift guide from MAKE volume 16 (PDF). If you have your printed copy of MAKE it’s on page 18, a pull out, and in the digital edition it’s at the end. I also wanted to post up a great article by our associate publisher Dan Woods called “The value of a […]
Prepaid Number reminder as iPhone wallpaper
Handy tip, MAKE Flickr photo pool member Superlocal writes – I am always forgetting my prepaid numbers esp when i’m in a city for a few days, so i just snap the number on my iPhone camera and make it my wallpaper, so it’s easier to get at whenever i meet someone who needs it. […]
HOW TO – Making glass with a grill and vacuum cleaner
Theodore Gray @ PopSci writes – All the components of glass can be found in two places: the beach and the laundry room. It’s possible to melt pure white-silica beach sand into glass, but only at temperatures of 3,000 to 3,500°F. Washing soda, lime or borax (a traditional laundry aid) added to the sand disrupts […]
Cooking with a Jacobs ladder
Raphael Abrams (MAKE MP3 player and Twitchy fame) and Max explore the smelly process of high voltage cooking. More: HOW TO – Build a five foot tall Jacob’s ladder.
Tips from Cool Tools installment 24
Check out these handy tips from Cool Tools, including this one: Spray-On Cooking Oil As Expedient Wetsuit Remover As a triathlete, I practice the transition during every training session, meaning I try to remove my wetsuit in super fast time. Every Friday last summer I swam in a lake in my Promotion triathlon wetsuit. I […]
