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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 […]
I noticed the other day on Twitter that my local pie shop, Mission Pie, announced that they’d made their last shaker lemon pie for the season. I’ve been a little bit addicted to it, so this was a serious blow! That sent me onto the web to find the perfect shaker lemon pie recipe, and […]
Boris Smus, a student at Carnegie Mellon, built this elegantly simple robot that uses a smartphone to interpret commands from Twitter. A few projects around the internet use an Android phone to control the Lego Mindstorms NXT brick. Most involve an ugly hack in which the phone communicates with a computer over WiFi, and the […]
I’ve been collecting used books for making craft projects for ages. But I never knew I could make them into stone! These rocks made from the pulp of recycled books by Lisa Kokin are great. They look almost like real sedimentary stones.
Yes, that is a giant chocolate chip cookie with a brownie inside of it. Yes, you need to make these … now. Bakerella shows you how.
We get a lot of makers applying to sell art lamps in Makers Market, but Erik Smith’s are definitely on the high end when it comes to aesthetics and on the low end when it comes to prices. If you’re a collector, or in the market for a handmade lamp for yourself or as a gift, check out Erik’s shop. Or better yet, make one of your own! Or, even better, if you’ve already made one, post a link and show it off in the comments. If I get enough responses, I’ll do a reader-made art lamp round-up sometime next week.
