Easy Cherry Cream Cheese Danish
These cherry cream cheese danish from Niesz Vintage Home look so yummy and easy to put together. I can’t wait to try them for a special breakfast soon!
Year: 2009
How-To: TV modulator from salvage
In need of a way to transmit a video signal to an aging antennae-input TV set, John rigged up a working RF modulator from salvaged parts (plus 5V supply) – I decided not to build my modulator from first principles. A simple design with a UHF cavity oscillator and simple sound and vision carrier and […]
CD scrounged drawing machine
It’s actually a drawing machine. It’s built from
two stepper motors I salvaged from come old CD-ROM drives.
You can’t see it in any of these pictures, but in its
current incarnation, it has two pots each of which controls
the movement of one of the two motors: for moving the pen up
and down or left and right.
Thumping, squawking, & soldering @ the first Handmade Music Austin!
There was no shortage of attendees (or noises!) at Austin’s first Handmade Music event. The mass kit-build was a definite success, with all participants bringing home fully-functional mini sound modules. Kit designer Eric Archer came equipped with 25 different capacitor recipes for his Mini Space Rockers – thus keeping the sonic landscape fresh – and […]
From BoobTube to SmartTube
Tired of reading all of those racist, anti-Semitic, gross, nasty, hateful, and just plain dirt-dumb stupid comments on YouTube? Now you can make everyone as smart as a rocket scientist, or at least as smart as a Nobel Prize-winning physicist (and prankster, juggler, painter, bongo player, and lock-picker), namely Richard Feynman. FeynTube is a Greasemonkey […]
How-To: Make electric candles for Halloween
Dave Gugel, of Davenport FL, knows a thing or two about outdoor Halloween decorating. He does a wee bit of it each year (see above pic). Here, he offers a how-to on turning some PVC pipe, dribbles of hot glue, and flicker lights into some pretty convincing outdoor pillar candles. Halloween Decorations: How to Make […]
How-To: Papier-mâché gargoyle
Or is it “carton-pierre?” Anyway, it wins. “Ghostess” Deanna did a great job documenting the process of building “Goliath,” who is based on the eponymous character from Disney’s Gargoyles cartoon. Hard to believe he started out as glue, craft paper, and PVC pipe.
