Rex from Houston’s TX/RX Labs wrote in with a fun project: Leftist art doesn’t sit well in a corporate law firm. So when one of our members decided to spruce up his office with something handmade, subversive and beautiful, he faced a dilemma: Sell out or get fired. Luckily, compromise carried the day: Using the […]
YouTuber HouseholdHacker shows just how simple a glycerin-based fog machine really is, in principle, and how easy is it is to improvise a pretty fair substitute with some food-grade glycerin, a candle, and a couple other odds ‘n’ ends.
Jenni of I Spy DIY shares a tutorial for making these cute wrapped rhinestone earrings. They’d be a perfect match to these wrapped bracelets.
Developed by the research department of Japan’s Ministry of Defense, the Spherical Flying Machine is a first of its kind remote control vehicle that can perform a vertical take off and landing and has the ability to use its surface for locomotion.
I think I just figured out what I’m going to be for Halloween next year. I love these masks of the aliens from John Carpenter’s cult classic, They Live. On Kiersten Essenpreis blog, she has process photos of the build.
One of the projects featured at the Mini Maker Faire was Ytai Ben-Tsvi’s IOIO, an Android hardware accessory kit that predated the Open Accessory Development Kit (ADK), and is a bit simpler to use: there’s no need to do any programming on the microcontroller, you can load firmware updates from the Android phone, and the Android programming side is pretty darn easy, too. On top of that, the IOIO supports a lot more phones than the ADK does: while the ADK requires Android 2.3.4 or greater, the IOIO will talk to a phone as old as the G1!
This spider web necklace from Margot Potter might be a few years old, but it’s still stunningly beautiful and looks like it would be fun to make and would be quite the show stopper at a Halloween party. Get the full how-to over on her blog. Inspired to craft something for Halloween? Be sure to […]
