Happy Fourth of July!
Happy Fourth of July! Hope you are enjoying the festivities today and fireworks later tonight. Pictured above are some red, white, and blue cupcakes with candy star toppers by Cindy of Skip to My Lou.
Month: July 2010
30MPH electric mountain bike
MAKE subscriber Jennifer Holt of Columbus, OH, wrote in to share her rather overpowered electric mountain bike, running on a 48V motor powered by a homemade battery pack consisting of 144 3.3V lithium ion cells. Data from the battery monitor is logged to an SD card. This is the second of the two electric bicycles […]
Happy 4th! (One word says a lot)
Happy Independence Day to all of our American makers! In case you didn’t see this piece on Boing Boing, I thought I would post it here. I think it, and one of the first comments it received, speak volumes about this amazing experiment we call the United States of America. Hyperspectral images of a draft […]
Solar system necklace – “Each bead represents 20 million miles”
Laura Cesari, aka Chain of Being, makes beaded models of the solar system that, by the way, can also be worn as necklaces. Her work was recently featured on the blog of Carl Sagan’s Planetary Society:
Fireworks Cupcakes
There is still time to whip up a batch of deliciousness for the holiday. Especially if you cleverly tweak a cake mix recipe with some sour cream and lemon juice! The trick when decorating these festive Fireworks Cupcakes is to hold back on the frosting to allow the colorful cakes to show. Easy, fun, and […]
How-To: Neverending Story Auryn Medallion
I have to admit that The Neverending Story is one of my all-time favorite movies from my childhood (not to mention one of my all-time favorite books). When I saw this Auryn medallion project from Wee Folk Art, I was instantly carried back to that feeling of watching the movie for the first time. Of […]
GMLStenciler makes copying graffiti easy
Here’s another neat project out of the Studio for Creative Inquiry, the GMLStenciler
