Yarn Phone Book Art Installation
I wish I could see this awesome yarn phone book art installation from Katie Herzog in person. Via Design for Mankind.
Year: 2009
Cat hair bags
I learned something new today: shaving one Persian cat produces enough hair to make a handbag: I won’t be buying one anytime soon, but one must applaud the ingenuity! (via Inhabitat) UPDATE: this was posted last week by Gareth, sorry!
Soda bottle herb garden
The Tap’d Instructables contest is generating some really cool entries, including this soda-bottle-based herb garden: Any suggestions on maximum plant size that will work with this much soil space?
Converting a generator to run on propane
This Instructable is interesting because it lets you run a gas generator on propane and also might serve as an introduction to adapting fuel inputs more broadly. Anyone know whether this would work as-is with methane instead of propane?
Solar thermal hydroponic system
Here’s a brilliantly simple Instructable on using the sun as your pump for a hydroponics system. According to the Instructable, clouds passing in front of the sun creates enough change in light to make the pump run. Has anyone seen scaled-up versions of this? Seems like it could be a great way to create some […]
HOW TO – Recycled Cardboard Cat Pad
Design Sponge has a great how-to on making this colorful recycled cardboard cat pad. My cats Kang and Kodos would absolutely love to hang out and scratch this thing up!
Evil zombie plushie pony!
Evil Mad Scientist Lenore has posted a project to zombify a freebie plushie pony from Wells Fargo. Watch Mollie the pretty pony be transformed into MAULIE, the evil zombie pony who eats children that don’t eat their vegetables (okay, I made that last bit up). When I was at the Steampunk Convention last November, I […]
