Month: August 2010

Using a plastic bottle label as a built-in etch resist

Using a plastic bottle label as a built-in etch resist

One of our most-trafficked original tutorials over the past couple of years has been this simple trick for etching designs on glass bottles by using the label itself as a stencil. It’s a quick, satisfying, inexpensive project that yields long-lasting results with common equipment. In the process of porting the original blog post to our new Make: Projects platform, I took the opportunity to revisit the idea, updating the old images and adding a couple of helpful details, all of which was refreshingly easy using the new interface. Check it out.

Dirt cheap $50 Android tablet prototype

Seriously, I’ve spent more on dirt for our backyard garden than you’d end up paying for this tablet from Allgo Systems. Technology demonstrations, such as in the accompanying video, lower barriers of entry and expose new possibilities that normally wouldn’t exist. For a few dollars more than the leading name brand microcontroller board you could have a complete system with I/O, display, storage, etc. I know it’s like comparing apples to oranges, but it does get you wondering. What sort of projects would you build with access to cut-rate tablet hardware like this?

Threadless Cakes

Threadless, a very hip t-shirt site, is hosting a cake contest known as Threadcakes. Why on earth would a t-shirt company have a cake baking contest, you ask? Because challenging people to make cakes from the most amazing graphic designs to ever grace a t-shirt is straight up awesome. The call for entries is closed, […]