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After a trip to Copenhagen, Instructable user carkat saw that a lot of people used cargo bikes (with a cargo area in the front) to transport their kids around. He couldn’t afford to buy such a bike, so he cannibalized a couple of junkers, some square steel tubing, and some some sort of what looks […]
Sooner or later you’ll end up with more bricks than you can easily store. Here are some suggestions for storing Lego, as well as some methods to avoid.
The projects submitted to our Save My Oceans contest were innovative and inspirational and were all great examples of the brilliant ways our readers reuse plastics. Each day this week, we’ll highlight one of our top five entries, and we’ll announce the Grand prize winner next Monday. Be sure to check out the entire Save […]
I had the very great pleasure of meeting Ari Krupnik at the recent Bay Area Maker Faire. Among other cool toys, Ari was showing off his “RecycloGraph,” which is a two-piece Spirograph (Wikipedia) milled from an old CD on Ari’s ShopBot. Once he’s milled the profile, Ari turns the plastic over and etches words or graphics in the metal foil using a CNC laser. Ari’s selling them now using a “name your price” PayPal widget on his website.
These red, white and blue crochet bangles from Handmade by Annabelle are a fun little project to whip up to wear to your 4th of July celebrations. [via Sarah London]
My lovely and wonderful friend Leandra is getting married this Saturday! Its going to be the most spectacular event ever. To find her way, she created an inspiration board. It’s a simple collage filled with elements from events that she loves. It is an invaluable planning tool- it makes her vision very clear. Squidoo has […]
Learn to make your own tempura butterflies from root vegetables like carrot or daikon radish in this video by YouTube user gryphern. How cute would that be in a bento box?! More: Starbucks Bento Crafting a Bento
