Greeno Mojito Smoothie
Janice Lipman came up with this delectable “Greeno Mojito” smoothie recipe combining avocado, lime, and mint (and a few other things) to create a thick green elixer.
Year: 2011
Solar-powered audio graffiti
This solar-powered two-transistor oscillator was created by TECH|DISOBEY|LAB, “an experimental art project that explores sounds and visuals through DIY electronics, circuit bending, and self-made instruments; utilizing electronic salvage and consumer debris as a platform for audio-video expedition.”
How-To: Temari Easter Eggs
A few years ago, when I visited Diane of Crafty Pod in Portland, she and her mom Pam, of Gingerbread Snowflakes, and I spent an afternoon doing Temari. Temari is an ancient Japanese art of wrapping balls in intricate thread designs. Pam has taken Temari and applied it to the Easter egg, creating a really […]
Giant Machete-Shooting Slingshot
I love Cory Doctorow’s droll description of this creation almost as much as I love the thing itself:
This handy gentleman has built an (arguably ill-conceived, but nevertheless impressive) rifle-cum-slingshot that fires machetes, should you find yourself with the need to fire machetes.
The handy gentleman in question is YouTuber Jörg Sprave, slingshot enthusiast par excellence. He blogs about it here. [via Boing Boing]
Custom Hardware to Fix Broken iPod
While most people would simply throw away an out-of-warranty iPod with a broken play/pause button, Craig gave his a new lease on life by attaching a custom-hacked dock connector. Inside the connector, he stuffed an ATtiny 13 microcontroller with a few other passive components. Now when he pushes the button on the connector, the ATtiny […]
Hackerspace Happenings: MAKE Interviews Tokyo’s Akiba
In this installation of Hackerspace Happenings, I’m interviewing Akiba of Freaklabs about the efforts of Tokyo Hackerspace to help out in the aftermath of the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear accident. John Baichtal: How did Tokyo Hackerspace members react to the disaster? Akiba: I don’t think anyone could really ignore what was going on. The mailing […]
Pinwheel Wedding Decor
CasaSugar has posted up a roundup of 10 ways to put pinwheels in your wedding. I love this very crafty, typically kids theme that works so wonderfully as a modern motif for weddings as you can see. Photo above is by Three Photographers for “A Texan Etsy Wedding” on Ruffled.