HOW TO – Valentine Pretzels
Maya Made shares the recipe and instructions for making these cute heart-shaped pretzels. This is a great project to do with kids!
Year: 2009
DIY Mic stand camera mount
Ever been in need of a photo tripod, but only had a mic stand? – yup, been there too. Consider this instructable for building your own simple adapter to secure the shot. Perhaps somewhere on Earth an obscure adapter exists for this express purpose, but just grab some PVC caps, hose and nut/bolts and you’re […]
More Harm than Good? More on the CPSIA
I’ve known for a while that one of the key legal challenges to the growth of the DIY segment as a source of innovation is liability law. So-called consumer protection laws have long been used to punish manufacturers who produce defective or harmful products, even if the use of the product extends beyond what the […]
Laser-cut paper doll’s furniture
Matt Cottam wrote in with this cool project he made for Papercamp. He started with patterns from The American Girl’s Home Book of Work And Play by Helen Campbell (1890) and cut them on a laser cutter on 300gsm paper. Matt brought the images into Illustrator, and traced their outlines with the pen tool. To […]
Pull Tab Creations = “Tabistry”
Gareth @ MAKE writes: Tabistry? Yup. At least according to this site it’s the “art of creating versatile textile out of ordinary soda/bear/soup/fruit/other can pull tabs woven together with fabric, ribbon, cord, wire, jump rings or any other material.” Some of the work is quite lovely. Seems a little… inappropriate to make a kid’s hat […]
MIDI programming library for Arduino
Very cool – Franky wrote up a MIDI code library for use with Arduino. It handles the basic serial setup, interprets and filters incoming messages – also sets a pin to control the optocoupler chip (no worrying about incoming data messing with sketch uploads). Plus it handles MIDI out/thru transmissions as well – super helpful. […]
Downloadable Zebra Valentine Cards
Bunny Cakes created these cute zebra Valentine cards as an option for her children to hand out at school. She’s offered a PDF version for download on her web site, and for the first few commenters on her post, she’ll even create a custom version with your kiddo’s name.