The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
Girl Scout Cookie devotees rejoice! Craftster user, bethntim, shares her recipe for making homemade Samoas (now known as Caramel deLites) that can help you get through the year between Girl Scout cookie sales. Now if someone would come up with a version of the Peanut Butter Patties ….
You remember Simon, right? This through-hole soldering kit will bring back memories as you try to match the colored patterns. Plus, its ATmega168 microcontroller is re-programmable, so you can come up with your own games using the Arduino IDE and an FTDI board.
Dutch designers minale-maeda (Kuniko Maeda and Mario Minale) recreated De Stijl furniture designer Gerrit Rietveld‘s classic Elling Buffet and Red and Blue Chair. The buffet was a project for Droog, a design agency, with an edition of five created. The chair was created in 2004. [Via designboom, thanks Kevin!]
Carly at Threadbanger shows how to use a thrifted leather jacket to create a sleek laptop sleeve that’s stylish and functional.
Last night I worked until dark with a team of women creating a flower arch for Leandra’s wedding. While I can’t spoil the surprise and post early photos of the final results, I thought I would share some shots of the materials and the process. The structure of the arch are boughs of bamboo, and […]
Arno van der Vegt’s fascinating robot serves as more of a study of bipedal movement than a completed project. Get this, it packs fourteen NXT and Power Functions motors, 4 touch sensors, 5 tilt sensors, an ultrasonic sensor — and uses 3 NXT microcontroller bricks to run things. Yow! I’d be interested how much the […]
Cute. Yum. Cheesecake in little jars with roasted nectarines.
