Happy Valentine’s Day from DODOcase! from DODOcase on Vimeo. I think Valentine’s Day often gets hijacked by expensive expectations, so I wanted to share this video my friend Andrea made about her sister’s valentine project for DODOcase, a local SF business that’s keeping the art of bookbinding alive and well (even though they’re hand-binding iPad […]
Matt Richardson shows how you can use an old MP3 player to convert a cigar box into an electronic music box. This project makes a wonderful, customized gift for someone you love.
Hack your remote control so that you never have to change its batteries again! This project is in MAKE Volume 25.
To get more info about this project and to download a PDF of the instructions check out:
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/01/how-to_solar_tv_remote.html
SunMod kit can be purchased here:
http://makershed.com/solarremote
Matt Richardson is trying out making videos for MAKE, let us know what you think of his work in the comments! Auditions are open for video makers: https://makezine.com/media/video/submit.csp
In this video, learn to hack your old USB keyboard into a pedal for any sort of keyboard shortcut. This one was made for Google Reader, but you can make your pedal send any keystroke you’d like!
http://mattrichardson.com/
Recently, Stephanie from All about Ami made a really cute Chinese New Year amigurumi doll which I posted about last week. Now she’s made this cute amigurumi Valentine Teddy to celebrate Valentine’s Day! I love seeing her step-by-step process in her detailed photos. Stephanie says the patterns for both dolls will be up soon on […]
We saw a small sample of “tapecraft” artist Matthew Buckley’s work in yesterday’s Flickr pool round-up. You can see more of Matthew’s stuff in his Flickr set. Shown here are two views and a plan of Matthew’s entry in Scotch’s Off The Roll Tape Sculpture Contest, which John Baichtal blogged about back in November. Entries are now closed, but the gallery of entrants is open for viewing, and for voting until the end of the month. Good luck, Matthew!
By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics Maybe you’ve always wanted to build your own geodesic dome home, but consider that too large of a project. You can build up your skills on a smaller scale by constructing a chicken coop. Anthony Liekens built this lovely one-meter geodesic dome so his chickens can lay […]
