How-To: Homemade Cadbury Eggs
Sarah James hits it out of the park again! Check out her explorations in creating a homemade version of the popular Easter candy eggs by Cadbury.
Month: February 2011
Morse For The Hard-Core: Replace Your Keyboard with a Key
Here’s a fairly radical way to motivate yourself to learn Morse, from Australian Ben Buxton. Got to agree with tipster Alan Dove, who described the build as, “a project involving Arduino programming, a mint tin, a USB interface, and International Morse Code, resulting in unassailable geek cred.” The USB key interface is built into a mint tin and provides a dual input port for a standard USB keyboard to access non-Morse characters. A numeric display on the tin displays your coding speed, and tapping out “SOS” without letter spaces brings up the settings menu. Software, schematics, and build notes at Ben’s site. [Thanks, Alan!]
How-To: Crochet Baby Gnome Hat
Lorajean of Lorajean’s Magazine shares a pattern for this adorable baby crochet gnome hat. I love the little ear flaps!
ECOoler Evaporative Cooler Partition
This attractive partition, called ECOoler, designed by Mey Kahn and Boaz Kahn combines two traditional Middle-Eastern elements to create an environmentally friendly cooling system. One part Mashrabiya, an ornate architectural partition made of clay or cement bricks, the other part Jara, a clay jug that acts as an evaporative cooler. It’s comprised of slip cast ceramic tubular tiles that are joined together using common garden hose fittings and connected to a water supply.
Basic Blacksmithing
Meg joins Alex Himmelbaum who shows us how to shape hot steel into a rustic paper towel holder for the kitchen. More info: http://bit.ly/gH7YgI
Tiny Yellow House in the New York Times
Photo by Boston photographer Erik Jacobs Congrats to MAKE video contributor Derek “Deek” Diedricksen for the piece about him and his micro-homes in this past Sunday’s New York Times. Really nice profile and slideshow of some of Deek’s projects. I like the characterization of his Tiny Yellow House show as “This Old House meets Wayne’s […]
MAKE Karts and Wheels Contest Winners
We got some really great, creative entries for our MAKE Karts and Wheels Contest. Folks were tasked with making something original and documenting the build in our DIY library, Make: Projects, with the only criteria being that their creation have wheels and can carry a person. The editors of MAKE then judged entries based on […]
