The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
Marcelo Souza of São Paulo, Brazil, dropped us a note to share his cool tabletop arcade machine emulator. I’ve spent the last Months building this MiniArcade. I’ve made 2 Videos of it. One of the process and one of the GamePlay. It has a unique optical Sensor to get the coin Credits, develped by me […]
I guess Precious didn’t want AJ the Fiesta having all of the telemetric sensing and twittering vehicular fun. Precious was created as a “smart” bike that can carry his rider, Janeen, across the US to raise money to benefit LIVESTRONG. Precious is outfitted with an array of sensors and a microcontroller, and like AJ, the […]
Here’s a simple costume idea for an adult/baby duo: a ventriloquist and a ventrioloquist dummy! The dapper suits with bow ties is the icing on the cake, but I think all you really need to pull this off is a creepy baby-sized wig and to draw lines straight down from the corners of Baby’s mouth. […]
The latest issue of MAKE, Volume 23, has the easiest plans yet for a machine that turns itself off, and does nothing else (except inspire a cult following). Flip the device’s toggle switch on and a wooden arm emerges, switches it back off, and then disappears inside again. The article was based on a runaway […]
Our coworker, Phil Muelrath, brought by a couple of crafty art pieces his wife Ellie had done as birthday gifts for some of her friends. We were all intrigued by the process, encaustic wax painting or wax drawing, an ancient technique that uses melted colored wax and cards. The process is accessible for beginners, and […]
For the rest of the month, I’m going on tour with Mitch Altman and Jimmie Rodgers on their Midwest Workshop Tour of Hackerspaces. We’re visiting a number of hackerspaces in the Midwest, where Mitch will be running workshops on how to solder, and spreading knowledge about hackerspaces: The workshops will give anyone and everyone the […]
MAKE pal and tech advisory boarder, Mister Jalopy, sent us a link to this article and video about a group of volunteers, armed with mowers and weed whackers, who reclaim overgrown areas of Detroit, one gnarly piece of scrub brush at a time. Here, they work to reclaim the Dorais Velodrome bicycle track in northeast […]
