Skid steer firewood processing
After considering splitting a winter’s firewood with a maul, an device like this one sure does look more fun. It’s made by Hahn Machinery in Minnesota.
Year: 2009
Flashback: DIY Dioramas
Last week, Julie Jackson told us about how she made a “Deer-O-Rama” in the body of a full-sized decoy deer. That image is not only fabulous, but so inspirational. It reminded me of Patricia Zapata’s diorama DIY that appeared on the pages of CRAFT Volume 07. Patricia’s is simply adorable, and features a little deer […]
Intern’s Corner: DIY LED yo-yo side caps
Every other week, MAKE’s awesome interns tell about the projects they’re building in the Make: Labs, the trouble they’ve gotten into, and what they’ll make next. By Eric Chu, engineering intern There aren’t many low-budget ways to customize one’s yo-yo. The most common ones are either painting or dyeing, but they’re limited: paint chips off […]
Crochet Spoon
203gow made this really gorgeous crochet spoon, which appears to have some sort of armature wire inside it, but I can’t be sure because I can’t understand Japanese. Can anybody who does give us an idea of what she’s written?
AXM Paper Space Scale Models
It’s been established that I am a full-on space geek, and when I was a kid, I remember building a scale plastic model of the space shuttle fondly. The orbiter of said model still hangs above my desk today (the solid rocket boosters, external fuel tank and crawler are all long gone). These amazing scale […]
“Magic eye” tubes with spinning LEDs
The amazing Pete Friedrichs has posted a cool video on how he used spinning green LEDs and simple electronics to create a modern version of a “magic eye” vacuum tube. He writes: So-called “magic eye” tubes are display devices, which indicate signal level by the projection of wedge-shaped shadows on a glowing view screen. They […]
The Original Christmas Cookie
I’m always fascinated by old cookbooks and the sometimes marvelous, sometimes outlandish recipes they hold, so Four Pounds Flour, a blog that attempts and updates historic recipes, is right up my alley. Check out this modernization of one of the earliest Christmas Cookie recipes (or should I say Cookey?)!
