How-To: Popsicle Stick Guitar
Instructables user busupholstery made this guitar from about 2,000 popsicle sticks. Includes instructions and very cool process photos!
Year: 2010
Kanji-to-animal transformers
Japanese toy giant Bandai is set to release a series of nifty kanji figures that transform into the shapes of the animals they represent. The shape-shifting critters, called Mojibakeru (moji means “character” and bakeru means “to change”), come in six varieties — 犬 (dog), 虎 (tiger), éš (fish), 馬 (horse), é³¥ (bird) and ç«œ (dragon) […]
Bee hive in a bucket
If you’re looking to build a home for your buzzing, pollinating garden helpers, consider this simple bucket bee hive design, tutorialized by Thinkenstein. It’s not for harvesting honey, but will help bring these imperative insects to your garden. The author admits that this design is untested, and there’s a great discussion in the comments. For […]
Chess-playing robot
Del Hatch, who was at the Faire last year showing off his Mendocino Solar Motor, made a big splash again this year with his chess playing robot, which uses an off-the-shelf sensory chess board and robot arm together with the open-source chess engine GNUChess.
How-To: Roast garlic
Katie Goodman writes great recipes and how-tos for CRAFT on a regular basis, and this roast garlic 101 is no exception. Do it once, and I swear you’ll be hooked on adding roasted garlic to your cooking. Oh, and CRAFT has a whole category devoted to food, too.
Downloadable All-in-One Letter/Envelope
Cathe Holden of Just Something I Made shares this delightful all-in-one letter/envelope stationery she created using some awesome new fonts in her collection. I’ve always been a big fan of the write in, fold up and mail stationery and I think Cathe’s design is fun and fresh. Enjoy!
Bike rack hack
Maker and avid bike hacker Antoine was inspired by this Incredible Rim Rack instructable enough to go and build this very elegant bike rack out of a broken U-lock and busted rim.