Month: February 2013

How-To: Mystery Electronic Switches

How-To: Mystery Electronic Switches

What can you make using the circuit from a blinky greeting card, a clear plastic antiperspirant container, and 8 switches? Mystery Electronic Switches: A great prank project that taps the qualities of magnetic reed switches. From maker Jeff Tregre’s intro: Everyone loves a good mystery. Give someone this nifty magic gadget and tell them there’s […]

Today on Food Makers: Wild Food Forager Langdon Cook

Today on Food Makers: Wild Food Forager Langdon Cook

Today on Food Makers, a Google+ hangout on air, I’ll be joined by Langdon Cook. Langdon is the author of Fat of the Land: Adventures of a 21st Century Forager. It’s a great book about, well, living off the fat of the land and foraging for food in the wild. In addition to being a writer (check out his delicious blog), Langdon is a teaches classes on wild foods and the outdoors. He has been profiled inBon Appetit, WSJ magazine, Martha Stewartโ€™s Whole Living, and Salon.com, and his writing has appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers, including Sunset, Grayโ€™s Sporting Journal, and Seattle Magazin