Space Slug Door Draft Blocker
Bonnie at StarWars.com shows you how to make a space slug door draft blocker using old socks and my favorite, googly eyes.
Month: May 2010
Soda can Stirling engine
This Instructable details how to build a Stirling engine out of a few soda cans, a balloon, and some terminal blocks (and other bits and pieces). Power is provided by tea candles. In the second vid, the builder uses his engine to power a radio. Build a Coke Can Stirling Engine More: How-To Tuesday: Teacup […]
Birthday Sewing Box
What a sweet birthday gift for a friend with a new sewing machine: an elegant sewing box. Silke Stoddard over at Martha Stewart’s The Crafts Dept. blog put together this one using readily available containers and supplies from a few big box stores but then personalized it by making a lovely leather case for the […]
Breathing table lamp
A functional piece of kinetic art from Jaems Coury. Shown here is number five in a limited series of hand-made lamps.
Making optical logic bricks?
The Lego Logic Blocks project appears to only be theoretical, however the idea behind it is pretty neat. The goal is to make a set of logic gates that use light as inputs and outputs.
Wanna fly a SR-71 Blackbird? RTFM.
It’s the awesomest spy plane ever — the SR-71 set speed and altitude records, flying 85,000 feet in the air with a speed of 2,000 mph. Less importantly from a military standpoint, it was super cool looking. Alas, all things must come to an end and the Blackbird was decommissioned in 1998. On the bright […]
Crafting a Corset, Part 1: Getting Started
By Alaina Zulli Corset-making may seem like a job only for the professionals, but anyone who can sew a straight line on the sewing machine can do this project. Over the course of three lessons for the next three Mondays, I will teach you all the techniques I learned as an apprentice to an historical […]