This beautiful and hearty quinoa salad will satisfy any palate. It is richly spiced with cumin, creamy with avocado, sweet with roasted carrots, and tangy with citrus juice. Incorporate it as a side dish, or use it as the star of any meal. This dish is the most versatile recipe I’ve ever created. Feel free […]
As Lego-based cube solvers proliferate, they tend to use PCs or cell phones to do the actual solving of the puzzle, with Lego motors and sensors for the rest. David Gilday’s MindCuber uses only those elements found in a Mindstorms set, and with a sub-2-minute average solve time, still packs impressive results. [Via the NXT […]
My So Called Green Life shows us how to upcycle old frames into chalkboard serving trays. Finished with chalkboard paint, these trays are great for dinner parties, where you can use the trays not only for holding food, but for labeling it as well. Start now and you can make one in time for your […]
I had some friends over last night for craft night and encouraged them to come with Thanksgiving project requests. Sure enough my best friend needed to make place cards ASAP for her family’s get-together, so we had an assignment we needed to make with the supplies on hand. Using heavier card stock I had in […]
By now, you’ve probably already seen those snazzy cross-stitched iPhone cases. Jenny at Sublime Stitching had seen them too, and was wishing for something that would be a little more friendly to traditional decorative stitches. Luckily, she came across an iPhone case with an offset grid that was perfect for embroidery! And, while it wasn’t […]
Others have remarked about the serene beauty of a complex mechanism precisely engineered to perform a single task, that would be simple for a person, just for the purpose of delighting its operator and/or audience. Witness Air Sculpture, by Japanese automatist Kazu Harada, case in point.
These two new kits from the Maker Shed were designed by Bleep Labs for Handmade Music Austin. Both are featured in our upcoming Ultimate Kit Guide and kits website. The Pico Paso (above) is a perfect beginner soldering / electronic music project based on the Atari punk console. The Nebulophone (above) is an Arduino based synthesizer with a stylus keyboard that can be played through 6 octaves using the shift button. The programmable sequencer function lets you record, play back, and manipulate custom arpeggios for musical awesomeness.
