The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
Designer Craighton Berman makes these cool lamps that are mostly formed from their own extension cords. Plus a laser-cut acrylic frame and a basic lamp kit. He’ll see you just the frame and the lamp, so you can roll your own, or a complete lamp pre-wound with a 100′ cord.
Happy Fourth of July! Hope you are enjoying the festivities today and fireworks later tonight. Pictured above are some red, white, and blue cupcakes with candy star toppers by Cindy of Skip to My Lou.
MAKE subscriber Jennifer Holt of Columbus, OH, wrote in to share her rather overpowered electric mountain bike, running on a 48V motor powered by a homemade battery pack consisting of 144 3.3V lithium ion cells. Data from the battery monitor is logged to an SD card. This is the second of the two electric bicycles […]
There is still time to whip up a batch of deliciousness for the holiday. Especially if you cleverly tweak a cake mix recipe with some sour cream and lemon juice! The trick when decorating these festive Fireworks Cupcakes is to hold back on the frosting to allow the colorful cakes to show. Easy, fun, and […]
This Instructable shows you how to make a USB-powered LED lamp that turns on (and off) via the wave of your hand (and the QT113 IC): The touch switch circuit is based on the QT-113 integrated circuit. It works by detecting changes in capacitance. When it is first turned on it measures capacitance at its […]
In the summer, I drink my coffee almost exclusively iced. I stick the whole brewed pot in the fridge and mix in sugar and milk on a cup-by-cup basis. But why doesn’t granulated sugar dissolve well in my iced coffee? Just remember back to chemistry and physics: slower-moving molecules in the cold liquid don’t bounce […]
Fra Fondi sent us info on this awesome soccer (foosball) table, made entirely of Lego parts, and programmed and controlled (sounds, score-keeping) with the Lego WeDo kit. Sariel tells us that: “Counting the game score and returning balls to a box are both fully automated. The actual game remains, obviously, fully manual, with eight players […]
