Food & Beverage

The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for cooking, brewing, feasting and festing.

Roasted Peeps

As Easter draws closer and all the pastel candy starts crowding the supermarket and drugstore shelves, consider buying some Peeps for a Peep Roast. They are marshmallows. With sugar on top! When you roast them, the sugar caramelizes. I might have to try this. A Gluten-Free Guide has instructions. But as you might guess, there’s […]

Animatronic Peep Show

Animatronic Peep Show

The good kind. You know, with little marshmallow candies shaped like chicks baby birds. Built by Kyle Ringgenberg:

In the spirit of Easter, Iโ€™ve designed and constructed an audio-animatronic โ€œPeepโ€ Show. This is inspired by a long-running pun amongst of group of friends of mine. Total part count: 10 Servos, 29 LEDs, 1 Arduino, 1 Audio Decoder IC, 1 Push Button, 1 0.5 W Speaker, ~650 Lines of Code, 3 Sheets of Foamboard, 5? of Balsa Wood, 3? of Dowels, 25? of Wire, & 11 Peeps.

[Thanks, Rachel!]