Iโve made corned beef every St. Paddyโs day for years now, and have finally perfected my cocktail of pickling spices. Turns out I could have just gotten Leenersโ Corned Beef and Pastrami Kit; theirs is just as good. The kit comes with absolutely everything you need except the brisket (including a scarily effective meat tenderizer), […]
Bacon is enjoying the limelight these days, showing up in everything from chocolate to donuts! If you really want to hop on this fat fad, brine your own. It takes a week, but is incredibly simple and delicious. This kitโs recipe book covers bacon, Canadian bacon, and pancetta. Note to the truly dedicated: invest in […]
Karol ลuszcz is studying electronics at Poland’s Gdaลsk University of Technology. I’d say he’s on-track for an impressive career. This vector-graphics laser projector, his third prototype, includes three laser modules at 650, 532, and 405 nm wavelengths (making it more of an RGV projector, really). Many parts were salvaged, for instance, from a DVD burner, a printer, and a “disco ball.”
When Ashley from Lil Blue Boo was preparing to attend her first trunk show, she needed a good solution for adding labels to her line. She makes clothes for kids, so traditional (read: itchy) tags were not going cut it. She finally settled on making a set of mini silk screens so she could print […]
Back before cell phones had full color displays they used highly readable monochrome displays like this one, now available in the Maker Shed. These small (1.5″ diagonal) displays were originally used in old Nokia 5110/3310 cell phones. They feature a white backlight and 84×48 individual pixels so you can use them for graphics, text or bitmaps.
Artist Erik Kessels created an exhibit, on display at Foam in Amsterdam, that is a massive collection of every photo uploaded to Flickr in a 24-hour period. It’s stunning to see the volume of images as they literally pile up almost to the ceiling and pour through multiple rooms. Through the digitalisation of photography and […]
Congratulations to Joseph, winner of the latest Weekend Projects giveaway. You get a Maker’s Notebook and a Mintronics: Survival Pack (above). The Mintronics pack includes many of the components that we’ve been working with over the past few months in Weekend Projects. And with the notebook, Joseph will be able to jot down his project ideas in the years ahead.
