How-To: Homemade York Peppermint Patties
Emily at Joyful Abode shares her recipe for making a “much more nourishing, high-fat, low-sugar version” of York Peppermint Patties.
Year: 2010
Jeri Ellsworth turns an LCD into an EL display
Jeri experiments with Dupont Luxprint Electroluminescent inks and converts an old LCD into a simple EL display. She also demonstrates that super glue can be used as the dielectric and that zinc sulfide glow powder does not work well as an EL phosphor. More: Jeri’s homemade pinball machine MacGyver of the Day: Electronics Hacker Jeri […]
David Mach’s incredible coat hanger gorilla
David Mach’s coat hanger gorilla via Book of Joe.
Conference for Creative Entrepreneurs on Kickstarter
The Conference for Creative Entrepreneurs is going to be a blast of empowering crafty business savvy, right in the middle of August in Seattle. The conference needs financial support and has set up a Kickstarter page to make it easier to contribute: We are five women volunteering to put on the first ever Conference of […]
Business card turns into brushless DC motor, is awesome
Just when I thought that we had reached the pinnacle of cool business card designs, Matt and Duncan of Metrix Create: Space revealed their plywood press-fit brushless DC motor business card.
Hollow metal 6-sider
The world’s hardest-working dice fanatic is up to his usual tricks. Barcelona, Spain maker Abraham Neddermann created this excellent hollow die that he calls Structural Integrity. Well…finally I managed to finish this troublesome build. I’d like to state that I used the verb “build” instead of craft/make or others, because in the end, doing this […]
This week in Maker Events
Looking to take a break from tinkering on your latest project this weekend? Here are some fine maker events to check out, from The Maker Events Calendar.