With temperatures on the rise and the first day of summer only 3 weeks away, pool season is just about upon us. Back in MAKE Volume 23, rocket engineer Edward Hujsak shared an efficient, low-cost, safe, and easy way to warm your pool. His project is the Lily Pad pool warmers, and they’re essentially made […]
I was at my prosthodontist’s office the other day getting some work done and the conversation turned to what I do for work. I told my dentist, Vu Huynh, DMD that I worked as a Web Producer for MAKE magazine. He almost dropped the cheek clamps (not a real thing…). He’s a subscriber and a […]
Want to create you own garden containers, like the vintage Tupperware containers I made above, but don’t know where to start? Gayla Trail of You Grow Girl has a collection of tips and tricks in a post she shared with HGTV’s Gardens blog. Check it out and then head straight to your garden and get […]
This ombre tassle necklace combines both trends in a sweet and pretty DIY project, as shown by Oh the Lovely Things.
Craig Venterโs Bugs Might Save the World – NYTimes.com: In the menagerie of Craig Venterโs imagination, tiny bugs will save the world. They will be custom bugs, designer bugs โ bugs that only Venter can create. He will mix them up in his private laboratory from bits and pieces of DNA, and then he will […]
The other night, having dinner with my parents, we started talking about Hawaiian food — specifically loco moco. Then someone wondered aloud about homemade Spam, and so I had to find it on the internet. Lo and behold, Morgan of Morgans Menu has a post up about her successful attempt to make the canned meat […]
Vulpestruments just announced the completion of the Droneitar, a two-stringed instrument that has drone strings powered by a string attached to an electric motor. In fact, the coils from another electric motor are used as a pickup for the device. Rich Stephenson demonstrates the sonic possibilities of the Droneitar in the video.
