How-To: Ottoman from Old Suitcase
If you can’t fix your old suitcase, try turning it into a new ottoman with these instructions by Instructables user solmstea.
Month: March 2009
Understanding pull-up and pull-down resistors
When I first got involved in digital electronics, it took me awhile to understand the concepts of pull-up and pull-down resistors and when to use up or down, and when to use internal (built in, programmable) resistors, and when to use actual, discrete component, resistors. On Youritronics (a name that will always make me wince), […]
The Open Source Hardware Bank
Hey look, here’s a bank that’s not afraid to loan. Fascinating idea. Wonder if it’ll work? From: Why does Open Source Hardware need a bank? Right now, the status quo, emerging trend for OSHW DIY’ers has been: build something, put up a bunch of money to build a few of them, if people like it, […]
How-To: Planting Asparagus Crowns
A friend just gave me an asparagus crown (the network of roots that supports an asparagus plant), so I figured I’d better figure out how to plant it! Unlike many garden vegetables, asparagus are a long-term investment; you aren’t supposed to harvest the asparagus for the first few years, to give the plant time to […]
Recipe: Viva La Crêpe!
I’m very, very fond of crêpes. Savory or sweet. Swedish or French. Rolled or flat. Stuffed or stacked. It doesn’t matter to me. I distinctly remember the first time I ate a crêpe. In high school, my friend Ulrika, a Swedish exchange student, made them for her host family and friends just before she went […]
Animated papercraft explanations
CommonCraft has a neat way of explaining complex ideas. They use a simple format of paper cutouts and figures with a voiceover. Recently, there has been a bunch of buzz about Twitter, and a number of references have been made to their work explaining how Twitter works. Here they explain Google Documents: There are so […]
Great Depression Cooking with Clara
Clara Cannucciari is a 93-year-old cook, great grandmother, and Great Depression survivor who graciously invites us into her kitchen in her Great Depression Cooking YouTube series. She is first generation Sicilian-American, and grew up in the Chicago suburb of Melrose Park. In her adorable and informative cooking video series, she walks us through some of […]
