This site has tons of how-tos and information on making water rockets (up to 6 feet tall!) Materials required tends to be limited to one or two pop bottles, some putty or Blu-Tack, a bicycle pump and an adaptor and making use of a sharp knife. Parachutes can be as simple as a bin-liner and still work well despite their low cost. Thanks Rick! Link.
Here’s a photo diary explaining how a group of Makers made a PC using a real pumpkin as the case. The Pumpkin PC uses a Latitude D410 motherboard and red flashing fans for eyes. It would be cool in version 2 to have a LCD screen that pull Flickr photos with tagged Jack-o-lantern photos. [via] Link.
Stunning collection of jewelry made from electronic parts. Capacitor necklaces, diode earrings, Cat5 bracelets – my fav “1.1MΩ Purple Resistor Necklace: Necklace created from 32 1.1MΩ resistors, their leads wrapped four times around a central ring to create this pattern, with additional resistors accenting the edges.” [via] Link.
ZSK made a great PC in retro TV case mod – “I managed to purchase a relatively cheap EPIA M board on eBay and set about looking for a case for it. In the end I found a great 1970s National “portable” television set (once again thanks to eBay) which I thought would make the perfect case for my first ever computer case mod.” [via] Link.
It’s really interesting to see the retro gaming characters start to appear in so many hip crafster projects lately. “mario and friends- for my weaving class we had to make a weaving about 5 yards long and 14 inches wide. we got to play around with weaving structures and what we used for our weft. i really enjoyed the technique brocade, so i decided to translate mario and some other characters into my weaving.” [via] Link.
Programming The Nintendo Game Boy Advance – This unique and highly-anticipated book was not released in book stores due to legal problems with Nintendo. As a result, the “e-book” edition is available here, exclusively, for free as a downloadable PDF e-book. [
This site has a ton of free stencils to down, exacto out and use as you please. There are stencils for just about anything out there – Animals to Vegand & Vegetarian. [