Soda can crab
Instructables user chaitanyak shows us how to make a little toy crab from one soda can.
Month: February 2009
Command-line Fu: post and vote on command-line snippets
Here’s a great resource for command-line geeks; you can browse and vote on snippets that people have posted and upload your own: Command-Line-Fu is the place to record those command-line gems that you return to again and again. Delete that bloated snippets file you’ve been using and share your personal repository with the world. That […]
Making solar-powered batteries
Norwegian maker Knut Karlsen got some flexible solar material and decide to try his hand at prototyping solar-powered batteries. He wrapped the cells around some NiMH rechargeables he had on hand and wired them up. He writes: This setup is in fact a (quite weak) trickle charger. It is not ideal, but really convenient. A […]
Liz Lomax’s character sculpting
“3D illustrator” Liz Lomax has done a fast-mo video of her doing a sculpture of musician Noel Gallagher. The Making of Noel Gallagher
Rear-Projection TV turned into a multi-touch display
Make Subscriber Dave Vondle let us know about this great project he just posted. He started with a rear projection TV, turned it into a laser light plane-based multi-touch screen, and wrote it up on the IDEO Labs Blog: Continuing our multi-touch research, we’ve been working on turning an off-the-shelf rear projection TV into a […]
Lint Roller Art
Sean Ragan made this artwork made from — you guessed it — lint. He includes a tutorial.
Old school coffee roasting, “La Esencia”
Dave’s Coffee in Charlestown, RI, has just shared an old-school coffee roasting technique: Straight from the mountains of Ecuador, we here at Dave’s Coffee recently came across a very old school way of roasting coffee beans…right on the griddle. They call it, “La Esencia.” With a bad ass name like that, how could you go […]