Year: 2010

Woods of the world indexed as “library” of “books”

Woods of the world indexed as “library” of “books”

I’ve been interested in collecting woods for a long time. The International Wood Collectors Society is the premier collectors organization, and they promulgate a “standard sample block” measuring 6″ x 3″ x 1/2″. The smaller IWCS-size samples are much cheaper than these wooden “books” offered by Worlds Wood Library, but there’s no denying the elegance of this ideas as a display. The common name is cut into the book’s “spine,” and the latin binomial into its “cover.”

Concise electronics for geeks

Concise electronics for geeks

Make: Online fixture Michal Zalewski has built a rep for his incredibly detailed and precise how-tos. Now he has written another, the ultimate how-to for people interested in learning electronics. There are quite a few primers on electronics on the Internet; sadly, almost all of the top hits resort to gross oversimplifications (e.g., hydraulic analogies), […]

How-To: Baked Pumpkin Oatmeal

I love this recipe from Cooking With My Kid for baking a hearty fall oatmeal right inside a sugar pumpkin. My kid assisted by scooping all the seeds and stringy bits out of the pumpkin and also selected which ingredients we’d include inside. You can really add anything you like to the oats – dried […]