How-To: Solar Bike Stereo
Bring the tunes as you ride with this simple solar-powered bike stereo, built into a milk crate by Matt Bosher in Tempe, AZ.
Month: May 2010
How-To: Weave a Yarn Dandelion on a Fork
Jennifer Ackerman-Haywood of CraftSanity shares how to weave a yarn dandelion on a fork and turn it in to a brooch. Looks like it would be a fun project to try with kids!
How-To: Sound Effect Minesweeper Pillows
BrittLiv writes: I’m going to show you how to make your own set of minesweeper pillows. I guarantee you that you will have a lot of fun, seeing your friends jump up after they made themselves comfortable on the wrong pillow. They use a little sound effect circuit embedded into the pillow, triggered when pressure […]
Bees Create Papier-Mache Nests From Flower Petals
NPR reports on an amazing rare type of bee that creates delicate, colorful individual nests using flower petals and a papier-mache method. Building a nest takes a day or two, and the female might create about 10 nests in total, often right next to each other. To begin construction, she bites the petals off of […]
Mint tin mixer
Instructables user richfiddler11 writes: My car stereo has only one ‘Aux’ input, but I have several gadgets that I like to hear on a trip without swapping cables: MP3 Player, talking GPS, Blackberry, XM player, Kindle, etc. I couldn’t find a commercial solution, so I came up with this little passive audio mixer that takes […]
Arduino-driven hypnodisk
(From the MAKE Flickr pool) Kevin Osborn used an Arduino, an Adafruit motor shield, and an infrared proximity sensor from SparkFun to create a hypnodisk for kids to interact with. I did a presentation on makers for our elementary school’s Science Discovery Week. I have done a lot of projects but wanted to do some […]
Lost at Sea is a Hit!
Last night’s Lost at Sea show opening was packed full of enthusiastic fiber arts fans, all checking out the nautical niceties at gallery hanahou in NYC. I snapped a few photos (more after the jump), but if you can, go check out the show in person! Lost at Sea May 6 through June 11 gallery […]