Year: 2010

How-To: Skeleton Wreath

If you want to create a spooky welcome for trick-or-treaters next weekend, try this cool skeleton tutorial from Meg of Mega-Spooky. Inspired to craft something for Halloween? Be sure to enter it in our CRAFT Halloween contest to win cool prizes. Costumes, decor, food – whatever you create for Halloween is welcome in the contest. […]

How-To: Tentacle Pot Pie

Megan of Not Martha shares her spooky take on a classic dinner dish with this fun tentacle pot pie. This is an easy and slightly creepy Halloween dinner. I very simply cut dough into long strips to create tentacles that drape down the sides of a bowl. It’s awfully fun to break off tentacles and […]

Conductive play dough

Samuel Johnson, a student of AnnMarie Thomas, demonstrates the conductive play dough (featured in Make: 22 and Make: Online) he developed as a student at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN. From the pages of MAKE: MAKE Volume 22, Remote Control Everything Automate your world with remote control. From pet care to […]

How-To: Rolling Pin Stamp

Who knew you could glue bits of bicycle inner tube to a rolling pin to make a clever rolling stamp? Aparently ynze on Instructables did, and shows you how, too. Using a rolling pin, a used inner tube and some sticky tape, you can make a really cool roller stamp. By really cool I mean […]

AVR Programming 01: Introduction

AVR Programming 01: Introduction

Great new series on HaD! We love looking at hardcore electronics projects with a beefy microcontroller and hundreds, if not thousands, of lines of code at its center. But everyone needs to get there somehow. This tutorial series aims to make you comfortable programming the Atmel AVR line of microcontrollers. Whether you’ve never touched a […]