Month: April 2010

Cuckoo clock shows the tweets

Cuckoo clock shows the tweets

Tweet Haroon Baig’s Twitwee Clock and it will deploy the cuckoo and show the tweet on a small LCD. The project appears to use a combination of an Arduino and Chumby guts to do its thing. The Twitwee Clock is a modified Cuckoo Clock that wirelessly connects to the internet and constantly checks for new […]

How-To: Small Dog Harness

Instructables user Doggie Stylish writes: The smaller a dog is, the harder it is to find them a harness that will fit them properly. This tutorial will show you how to make a custom fitting small dog harness using grosgrain ribbon. The materials used for this harness are suitable for small dogs weighing 10 pounds […]

How-To: Drill into a ceiling without getting plaster in your face

How-To: Drill into a ceiling without getting plaster in your face

Instructables has a good thing going with their regular “theme” contests. They just finished up with paracord; now they’re starting in on coffee cups. Reminds me of the “MacGyver Challenge” that ReadyMade magazine used to run back before their facelift. Shown above is user bertus52x11’s simple hack for catching the plaster that would otherwise fall everywhere when you drill into the ceiling.