Hey look, here’s a bank that’s not afraid to loan. Fascinating idea. Wonder if it’ll work? From: Why does Open Source Hardware need a bank? Right now, the status quo, emerging trend for OSHW DIY’ers has been: build something, put up a bunch of money to build a few of them, if people like it, […]
A friend just gave me an asparagus crown (the network of roots that supports an asparagus plant), so I figured I’d better figure out how to plant it! Unlike many garden vegetables, asparagus are a long-term investment; you aren’t supposed to harvest the asparagus for the first few years, to give the plant time to […]
I’m very, very fond of crêpes. Savory or sweet. Swedish or French. Rolled or flat. Stuffed or stacked. It doesn’t matter to me. I distinctly remember the first time I ate a crêpe. In high school, my friend Ulrika, a Swedish exchange student, made them for her host family and friends just before she went […]
CommonCraft has a neat way of explaining complex ideas. They use a simple format of paper cutouts and figures with a voiceover. Recently, there has been a bunch of buzz about Twitter, and a number of references have been made to their work explaining how Twitter works. Here they explain Google Documents: There are so […]
Clara Cannucciari is a 93-year-old cook, great grandmother, and Great Depression survivor who graciously invites us into her kitchen in her Great Depression Cooking YouTube series. She is first generation Sicilian-American, and grew up in the Chicago suburb of Melrose Park. In her adorable and informative cooking video series, she walks us through some of […]
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Make a humane, compressed-air-powered bug trapper that removes unwanted, tiny pests from your world .Thanks go to Matt Lind for the original article in MAKE, Volume 06.To download The Spider Rifle MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Spider Rifle article in MAKE, Volume 06 “Spider Rifle” and you can see […]
