The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for making furniture and home decor for every room in the house, including the garage.
This “Spoka” lamp from Ikea has been hacked with an ATtiny2313 and an RS232 bluetooth module, enabling you to control the lamp with an Android phone. Originally, the lamp has 2 modes, that you can select with a switch at the top (which can also turn it off): 1. slowly change between the 3 available […]
Our crack shot of an Art Director, Jason Babler, sent me a link to this video of Dutch artist Jólan van der Wiel’s Gravity Stool project.
Our friend Meg over at CRAFT posted this fantastic video detailing how to make an upholstered headboard complete with ambient LED lighting effects. There’s a lot of great stuff to learn in this video, but my favorite tip was that an electric carving knife is the perfect tool for cutting through foam with ease. Who […]
Clever gimmick from Germans Jirko Bannas and Oliver Seltmann, who, under the name Lightboys, market a few different types of these wall- and ceiling-mounted “light pictures.” This one, with a frame designed to suggest a giant instant film print, is called Polaboy. [via Dude Craft]
Extremely clever trick from designer John Leung, who’s put a coffee table with an optical grill on top of a rug patterned with a few “hashed” frames of a simple, looping animation. The net result? As you move around the room, the patterns on the rug, viewed through the table, appear to move.
Instructables user LucidMovement built this great lamp out of electro-luminescent wire covered in crystals. So, of course, all of you reading this have thought to yourself at one time or another “I would absolutely love to grow some crystals on el-wire and then encase it in silicone and acrylic.” No? Oh, well maybe it was […]
Spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool, this clever idea for recycling dead tires (or storing new ones) from Pittsburgh’s Joe Katrincik. It’s two smaller plywood circles for the base, a larger one for the top, 6 castors, 6 screw eyes / eyebolts, and 3 ratcheting tie-down straps. I bet if one were to counter-bore the top holes, a bit, and used T-nuts instead of hex nuts to secure the top eye bolts, one could avoid having the nuts sticking up above the work surface. If one thought it mattered.
