DIY Japanese Lamp from Recycled Materials
Learn how to make this beautiful DIY Japanese lamp from recycled materials by PKM on Instructables. [ via re-nest ]
Year: 2008
HOW TO – Make Butterfly Bobbins
Kristin at Craft Leftovers shows you how to wind butterfly bobbins for your weaving, knitting, or crochet! Plus you can use them for organizing your random bits in your yarn stash.
Super TV-B-Gone
Florin made a giant TV-B-Gone… 48 IR LEDs and an ATmega8 that sends the signals to the LEDs. Source code and schematics included. He writes – I arranged the LED’s in 4 rows of 12 pieces and the resistors fit quite nicely between the LED’s. I used four BD139 NPN transistors to drive the rows. […]
“Touchless” Multitouch in Processing
Processing is a great open source application for artists and experimenters. This Minority Report style application was created in 20 minutes! Amazing! Check out the link to download the source code. [Thanks Guru] Today I read about touchless an opensource sdk microsoft has released. it enables you to track objects using a simple webcam to […]
DIY steam distillation
Sean sent us this link that describes how to extract essentials oils by steam distillation. Looks like an interesting project to try out. [Thanks Sean] This is a cool trick for improvising a condenser when you don’t have access to proper equipment. It could be used for simple distillation (say, to purify water), or, in […]
Origami Skeleton
Patti @ MAKE writes: Look at this strange and cool origami skeleton by Marc Kirschenbaum – there are 10 pages of complicated, hand-drawn instructions to make this model!
Not so lazy Sunday… Weekend Project – Blood Spurting Knife Wound
There’s still time to start making or just watch this week’s Weekend Project: Blood Spurting Knife Wound. You can view the video here, grab the PDF here and subscribe in iTunes to get all our Weekend Projects and PDFs delivered each week.