Soda bottle herb garden
The Tap’d Instructables contest is generating some really cool entries, including this soda-bottle-based herb garden: Any suggestions on maximum plant size that will work with this much soil space?
Month: January 2009
Converting a generator to run on propane
This Instructable is interesting because it lets you run a gas generator on propane and also might serve as an introduction to adapting fuel inputs more broadly. Anyone know whether this would work as-is with methane instead of propane?
Solar thermal hydroponic system
Here’s a brilliantly simple Instructable on using the sun as your pump for a hydroponics system. According to the Instructable, clouds passing in front of the sun creates enough change in light to make the pump run. Has anyone seen scaled-up versions of this? Seems like it could be a great way to create some […]
HOW TO – Recycled Cardboard Cat Pad
Design Sponge has a great how-to on making this colorful recycled cardboard cat pad. My cats Kang and Kodos would absolutely love to hang out and scratch this thing up!
Evil zombie plushie pony!
Evil Mad Scientist Lenore has posted a project to zombify a freebie plushie pony from Wells Fargo. Watch Mollie the pretty pony be transformed into MAULIE, the evil zombie pony who eats children that don’t eat their vegetables (okay, I made that last bit up). When I was at the Steampunk Convention last November, I […]
Elsa Mora Paper Doll Giveaway
The super-talented Elsa Mora is working on a series of paper dolls, and is holding a giveaway on her blog right now to win this one. How fabulous!
MAKE: television Episode 3: Steampunk & Pole Camera
Enter the alternative universe of Jake Von Slatt, a leading Steampunk Maker, who turns modern technology into Victorian works of art. In the Maker Workshop, John Park mounts a remote control camera on a painter’s pole to take stunning aerial photographs, and Cy Tymony demonstrates some sneaky uses for magnets. The Maker Channel presents a […]