Year: 2010

How-To: Felt Ice Cream Sundae

I’ve been eating a lot of ice cream this summer; I just can’t get enough. One possible outlet for such an obsession could be to sew up this felt ice cream sundae plushie, a lower-calorie alternative to the frozen good stuff, using the tutorial by antibromide. More: How-To: One-Ingredient Ice Cream Ice Cream Cone Balloons […]

Micro-hydro-electric bucket project

Inspired by Sam Redfield’s rural alt.energy work in hydro-electric power, featured here on MAKE, “Fishboy,” working out of the Vancouver Hacker Space, created this micro-hydro plant in a plastic bucket. The power generator in the system is a Permanent Magnet Alternator (PMA) with a pelton wheel directly attached to the shaft. Water is sent through […]