Seahorses are so strange! But I like them, for many reasons. Lia at Lia’s Crafty Journey (Jakarta, Indonesia) made this fantastic stuffed seahorse. She has a tutorial up in Google Docs. I don’t sew all that often, but I might try this because it makes me so happy!
I was thoroughly entertained by this bit of hobby chemical sleuthing from Michael August Pusateri, who observed years ago, while bored on-shift, that the hot sauce at the fast food joint where he was working would clean the oxide off a penny. My immediate assumption–that the effect is due to vinegar or some other acid in the sauce–turns out to be only half right. The right answer, and the process by which Michael arrived at and verified it, make for interesting reading. You might even find a use for it.
This is my kind of bento box. Flickr user meltong99 created the Lego-inspired lunch for her son who was at Lego camp. She created a few more Lego bento boxes that she shares on her blog, All About the Kids. [via Lego Express]
These cool interlocking jigsaw-puzzle shaped cans from Thingiverse user Zydac may be the best example, at least in terms of looks, of objects designed for printing on a MakerBot, RepRap, or other small FDM-type printer.
AnnMarie Thomas (whose work has appeared in MAKE Magazine as well as Make: Online in the past, links below) created this adorable LED costume for her daughter. If you can’t figure out how to make it by looking at the pic, she created an Instructable to guide you. (I love the anode/cathode leggings!) More: Guest […]
The DrinkShield is an open source Breathalyzer kit for the Arduino. It’s a great starter kit that was originally designed for Hackerspace parties. The DrinkShield can work as a standalone breathalyzer or you can connect it to a computer for and interact directly with the results. Source code repository comes with a game to use […]
This would have been so fun to have as a kid. I even had a little plastic tractor with a detachable pull-cart! A multi-colored and leveled carpet made to look like aerial views of farm land. I bet you could make something like this with carpet squares and an X-Acto.
