Amy at Mom Advice shares her recipe for creamy pumpkin pasta. Amy writes: This creamy pumpkin pasta is one of my favorite fall dishes and my entire family loves it. The kids think it looks like macaroni and cheese so it doesn’t take much coaxing to get them to try a bite. My husband loves […]
If you’re going to give out delicate custom business cards that were made using the aid of some fancy machine, you’d better have the geek cred and 3D printed business card holder to back them up. More: Adafruit’s business card makes art! 3D printed business card holder (another one) PCB business cards Business card caliper
Ever wonder what path your Roomba takes as it clears the floor? Well, here’s an easy way to find out, and create some fine artwork in the process.
Ever wish you had a friend to unicycle with you? Well, I don’t actually know how to unicycle, but I still want one of these robots to follow me around.
If you’ve ever wondered why there are so many types of capacitors, and what the advantages of each type are, you should definitely catch the latest installment of David L. Jones’ EEVblog.
Now here’s a perfect example of why I love the MAKE community. In response to my earlier post about the possibility of modern mechanical gate openers, reader MichaelLubke went out and took these photos (1,2,3) of a real live working mechanical gate near his ranch. What’s more, he ran down the original patent on the gate’s design! This patent, US number 3,163,947, was issued to Mr. Alvin E. Gandy of Eden, TX, in the year of Our Lord nineteen-hundred and sixty-five. His invention, known as the “Gandy Slide-A-Way,” is activated by the weight of one of your vehicle’s tires on a short steel ramp built into the driveway right in front of the gate. I wonder how many of these were ever made?
Crewel is a great way to use those last bits, and to me it’s a family tradition. Going back to my great grandma we have all preferred Crewel embroidery. I’m not sure what it is, maybe the thrifty nature of using up leftovers, the soft texture, or just that it was the late 70’s early 80’s and that’s what all the rage when my grandma and mom were into it. And of course little girls want to be like their moms.
