How-To: Wood Wall Hanging
Meg Allen Cole, formerly of Threadbanger’s Decor it Yourself, drops in for Etsy’s How-Tuesday to show viewers how to make a stylish and inexpensive wood wall hanging. Check out the video for the complete how-to.
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The Rocket Project
There is certainly lots to debate about corporate sponsorship of education and sponsored editorial content, in print and online. We have these debates all the time here at MAKE. And I’m sure educational organizations have equally tough choices to make in terms of getting the funding for great educational programs, money that companies are all […]
Sweater bike!
It’s too hot in NYC for a sweater bike, but it exists – no one knows who/why yet. Update: Some clues in the comments on CRAFT! Thanks Rachel!
Superhero Mask
Putting on something unusual that you don’t normally wear makes you feel different, and that’s good. Masks are great for achieving this different feeling. Jacqui has a tutorial for a child’s superhero mask on her blog Hazelnuts. Star-framed eyes: Rad.
This is not a real butterfly…
…but non-lepidopterists will probably be hard-pressed to figure that out just by looking at it. The video rates high on the jaw-dropping scale. The ChouChou electric butterfly is, in fact, a lepidoteroid robot, of sorts, from Japanese firm Tenyo Magic. It perches, flexes and flaps its wings, and flutters around its jar when disturbed. Preorderable now from JapanTrends.com. [via NOTCOT]
How-To: Bike Tubes for Trees
Avid gardener Lenore Edman at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories writes: Even after one too many flats, a used bike inner tube has plenty of uses. One more to add to the list: it can be used as a cushion between a tree trunk and a staking wire. More: How-To: Bike Tube Headband (CRAFT Video)
How-To: Restore the color of old Lego bricks
Turns out the yellowing of old ABS plastic is due to degradation of bromine-containing fire retardants which are added to the plastic during manufacture, which release elemental bromine, causing the yellow color. Shining UV light on the gel accelerates the decomposition of the fragile oxygen-oxygen bond in the peroxides it contains, generating reactive hydroxyl radicals which scavenge the free or loosely-bound bromine in the plastic that causes discoloration.