HOW TO – Raft from plastic bottles
Instructables user Weissensteinburg made this raft by collecting plastic bottles for pontoons, and shows you how to make your own, too.
Year: 2009
Sharrow Sweater
Lisa from The Little Red Blog of Revolutionary Knitting got hit by a pickup truck while riding her bike so she started working on a sharrow sweater. Sharrows are the arrows used on roadways to mark a bicycle route, but apparently they don’t paint sharrows in LA where she lives. I can’t wait to see […]
Photos & video from Make: NYC 1/28/2009 meeting
Wow! The 11th Make: NYC 1/28/2009 meeting was PACKED! The task – make “timer” based on the material the Make: NYC gang supplied, in under two hours and it needs to ring a bell at the end of 10 seconds. I’ll try and get some links to the winner and update the post later – […]
Wooden synth just looks more analog
Ben crafted this fine-looking enclosure/keyboard with a variety of wood types – he then made it functional by adding the guts of a regular old plastic keyboard – The purple keyboard is made of the woods: purple heart, santos mahogony (for the ‘white keys’) and an unidentified yellow wood for the black keys. The woods […]
Knitted Heart Pattern
The Knitty surprises are up and include a pattern for this knitted heart. The pattern was created by Kristin Ledgett, co-owner of The Knit Café in Toronto. If you start knitting now, you can make it in time for Valentine’s Day.
5 cent(ish) tilt sensor
No, it doesn’t just cost 5 cents. This tilt sensor earns its name because it’s made out of a nickel and still really cheap (in a good way). (via hackaday)
Growing shiitakes
Here’s a neat post about growing shiitake mushrooms. Looks like you don’t have to do much other than keep the log moist after initial setup: Some of the most expensive and delicious gourmet mushrooms on the market are shiitakes, which also are credited in Asia with healthful properties such as lowering cholesterol and improving immunity […]