I love it when school groups make how-to projects. Bay School writes: For our high school senior project, we have created a bamboo electric motorcycle. This project has been extremely fun, challenging, and time consuming; this is not something you can do over a few weekends. The end goal for us was to create a […]
John Boak’s blog Wrap Artist is filled with ingenious ways to wrap items by recycling materials you have around the house from foam meat trays to bottle caps. Pictured above is the recycled-bottle lily wrap where Boak used a kefir bottle and cut off the printed wrap to tranform it into a white lilly. John’s […]
Khali of Little.Lovely. shares how to make these adorable bunny egg cozies from scraps of fabric and a few simple stitches. [via Book Hour Craft Projects]
This tutorial by Instructables user nepheron shows you how to embed ordered optical fibers in cast cement to produce a small lump of concrete that will transmit light. It’s based on Litracon, a commercial architectural material that, I believe, invented the concept. I’ve been considering a very similar “cast your own translucent cinder-block” type tutorial for the Make: Projects series for some time.
Here’s a great tutorial for Borek, a popular fried filled pastry: The general name of this food is “Borek” (also depending on the nationality & language, it’s called burek, byrek, boereg, pirog and some other variants on the name) is a type of baked or fried filled pastry, from Turkey, made of a thin flaky […]
Ira Goldberg made this RGB LED brooch that changes color depending on how it’s snapped together. In the Maker Shed: LED Sewing Kit
Lily of The House of Mirth made these wall hangings for a university project using recycled fabrics and garments and her “top secret” felting technique. [via Wardrobe Refashion]
