Behold, the lidless eye of Sauron, in cupcake form atop the Dark Tower of Barad-dur. Instructables user RavingMadStudios made this Lord of the Rings cake for his kid’s birthday! More: Lord of the Rings papercraft Thorax cake Rubik’s Cube Cake(s) Automatic cake decorator Cockroach cake Cake art
Don Reitz’s stupendous spider looks fit to suck the juices out of Dwalin or Balin. It’s 25′ across and 8 feet tall at the abdomen. Click to biggify. Materials to make your own: 130′ of 2″ PVC pipe, 8x each 90º and 45º couplings, 6 large tomato cages, couple planks of wood, a pile of […]
Sean @ Make: Online writes: I love it when people get really, really serious about the preparation of drinks. Beverage and spirits writer Camper English is such a person. He has done some interesting experiments with freezing large pieces of crystal-clear ice at home (he reports boiling it first does not work), and freezing bottles […]
The open source, and now back in stock, Video Game Shield from the Maker Shed allows you to create your own games, graphics, text, sound effects, music, and more on an Arduino! Make awesome black-and-white video games that you can play on your TV! It supports up to two Nintendo Wii Nunchuck controllers for an […]
I love this idea from Mollie of Wild Olive for creating holiday cards that have a touch of handmade, but are time efficient. She stitched the design for the card, photographed it, added text in a photo editor and then had them printed as postcards (which has the bonus of cutting down on postage). This […]
Giovanni Piranesi was an 18th century Italian artist known primarily for his Carceri prints, 16 utterly baroque and fantastic prison scenes. However, he had an eye for gorgeous detail, and a group of modern artists has recreated several objects found in Piranesi’s illustrations. Factum Arte, voxelstudios and a team of specialist craftsmen working in Madrid […]
You are probably already familiar with the PVC pipe marshmallow shooter, a classic, fun weekend project. Maybe you already have one. Next time you show up for some gooey, air-powered confectionary warfare, why not come packing some classy heat — the Deluxe Copper Mini Marshmallow Shooter Mk. II!
You’ll build it from lengths of copper pipe and standard fittings. The Dremel Multi-Max will cut your ½” dia. pipe to length with ease, so no more laboring over a hacksaw. Finally, you’ll need some basic pipe soldering skills to put it all together.
