How-To: Painted Umbrella Stand
Turn a tall metal bucket into custom entryway storage with this painted umbrella stand tutorial!
Month: April 2013
How to Make a Custom Operation Game
Operation is a game that lets you test your hand-eye coordination by removing a variety of ailment tokens from a cartoon patient without touching the metal sides of each slot. Since its release in 1965, there have been a lot of special editions created. These feature popular characters such as Buzz Lightyear, R2D2 and Iron Man. The game’s simple design makes it very versatile and easy to adapt.
How-To: Fabric Typography Wall Art
Spruce up your crafting space for spring with this fun fabric typography wall art tutorial!
Compete in the Axeda Hackathon This Weekend in Boston
Come join me this Sunday in Boston, where I’m one of the judges for Axeda’s M2M hackathon. Build something awesome with electronics and software, and compete to win a prize!
Math Monday: DIY Tensegrity
A detailed, step-by-step illustration of how to make a tensegrity structure that you may not find in a lot of other places — a frustum of a pentagonal pyramid.
Flashback: LED Hula Hoop
LED hula hoops are so beautiful to watch, and creating a custom hoop is a satisfying challenge. Twenty-one LEDs are used in this hoop; 6 are flashing LEDs that cycle through the colors of the rainbow.
Four-Drawer Resistor Storage
Chris Connors shows his technique for storing resistors. Executive summary: he sorts by the 3rd color band! Over the years, Iโve seen and inherited parts bins with every drawer labeled for a single value resistor. This can take up dozens of drawers in a rack. It also makes returning the resistors a pain, because you […]
