Guitar amp storefront
Woah, check out this storefront in Southampton in the UK, it’s dressed up like a guitar amp, and the illusion is particularly convincing when the place is closed with the grate down. Also, the knobs go to 11. Via Buzzfeed.
Month: February 2009
HOW TO – Chocolate Bath Melts
Instructables user SoapyHollow writes: Bath melts are fruit or nut butter melts for soaking in the tub. The added ingredients will leave your skin soft, detoxified and smelling terrific. This particular batch I made for valentine’s presents, hence the chocolate scent and red foil wrap. You can scent them with any essential oil or fragrance, […]
An Exercise in Species Barcoding
Peter writes– Recently I’ve been looking at the International Barcode of Life project. The idea is take DNA samples from animals and plants to help identify known species and discover new ones. While other projects strive to identify the complete genome for a few species, such as humans, dogs, red flour beetles and others, the […]
Weekend Project: Cosmic Night Light – Part 2
Make a glittering LED constelation jammed in resin! This is Part 2 of this two part project.
Five-Minute Pizza Dough
Joanie from Nini Makes shares her family recipe for making five-minute pizza dough. I’m guessing this beats delivery pizza any day!
MAKE 17: “Discreet Companion” Ladies’ Raygun
The interns at the MAKE Labs had a good old time building Molly “Porkshanks” Friedrich’s “Discreet Companion” Ladies Raygun from the Lost Knowledge section of MAKE 17. Using materials you can gather from your local hardware and home stores, along with a cigar torch lighter, you can make this fine accessory that no discriminating lady should be without.
TinkerKit: a physical computing toolkit for designers
Tinker.it is working on a new collection of prototyping components for Arduino hackers: TinkerKit is an Arduino-compatible physical computing prototyping toolkit aimed at design professionals. The interest in physical computing as an area in development within the creative industries has been increasing rapidly. In response to this Tinker.it! is developing the TinkerKit to introduce fast […]