Packaging Turned Into Kids Toys
Patricia of A Little Hut helps her kids transform ordinary packaging into toys with this building scene above and more.
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Weekend Project: Fire Piston
Make your own fire starter that uses compressed air and burns at 500 degrees! Thanks to Bill Gurstelle for showing us this at Maker Faire. To download The Fire Piston MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes. Pick up your own Fire Piston Kit in the Maker Shed.
Continue ReadingThreadbanger DIY Wedding Lighting
In this second video installment of Decor It Yourself‘s DIY Wedding specials, Meg shows you some awesome wedding lighting solutions and nice personal touches to make your day extra special. You can watch part 1 on wedding decor here.
Continue ReadingQuilted Fireworks Table Runner
I’m looking forward to BBQ goodness on the 4th of July. To dress up your table decor, you can make a quilted fireworks table runner by Calli of Make it Do.
Continue ReadingGirlie Gundam
The images of this pink girlie Gundam created by a Taiwanese fan are blowing me away this morning. Look at those garters!
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New in the Maker Shed: ScrewShield for Arduino
The ScrewShield for Arduino is a “wing-format” shield that extends the Arduino pins to sturdy, secure, and dependable screw terminal blocks. The wing design allows you to extend just one or both sides (“analog” & “digital”) of the Arduino, and still access the jumpers, LEDs, and buttons on the Arduino. Thanks to its extra-long header […]
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SPARK Project #1, Post #5
Shawn Schaffert’s ratcheting scheduler Real Time Operating Systems? Even though this project is about a smart home dashboard that doesn’t necessarily have any time-critical tasks, it very easily could. What if a cloud covered the solar panels, and I wanted to dim the lights in response. I don’t want my software to wait for all […]
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