Here’s a great Halloween trick to try this year – transform an empty cardboard container into a handy jack-o-lantern tote. Check your kitchen for containers that are just about empty. We found a salt container, oatmeal cylinder, and ice cream carton and reused them all!
Imagine waking up and seeing your design for a circuit being used in a product by someone who never contacted you to ask if it was okay. You will not get any payment for their usage of your design, they’ve raised over $31,000 dollars, and they’re selling something you worked really hard on. You have no control over what someone does with something you made. Is this a nightmare? Perhaps for some, but this is actually a dream come true for others. And it’s what this week’s Soapbox is about: Open-source hardware kick-starting Kickstarters!
Yarn-wrapped pumpkins are a staple of crafty households everywhere, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen any that are quite as lovely as this spiral rosette pumpkin from Two Shades of Pink! Check out the wrapped pumpkins and gourds tutorial on the site to learn how to recreate the rosette texture and many others on […]
Cal Haunts NorCal is more than a Halloween haunted house, its a hands-on space that shows others skills in foam fabrication, decorating, and animatronics that are integral to their many scare tactics. Robert Santos shows these frightening spooks and props at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011.
How do you make a walking biped robot, with only three servos? Without saying a word, Frits Lyneborg from letsmakerobots.com shows you his inventive way of doing just that!
Ann of All Things Paper points us to this great tutorial from Marisa and Elias of Omiyage for making spiderweb kirigami. I love the bright colors of paper they’ve used for the webs. It would be a fun project to try with kids, and could be a fun way to decorate a Halloween party table. […]
Sรฉbastien Bourdeauducq of /tmp/lab and the Milkymist project scored a DIY vacuum tube, and set about testing it out. I was curious to see how well the PWL triode performed. So I made a little test to measure cathode emission and amplification. The first step was to build a variable high voltage power supply, since […]
