The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
MOCpages user David Hyman created an ambitious Lego robotic hand controlled by a wrist-mounted exoskeleton packing 3 rotation sensors and 2 touch sensors. I built it using 3 RCX bricks, one for each finger. The hand has two fingers and an opposable thumb. Each finger/thumb uses a rack & pinion mechanism which moves flexible tubes […]
Natan Linder upgraded his trusty desklamp, augmenting it with a robotic arm, pico projector, and camera to make the LuminAR.
Learn to make hard candy jewels! Chica and Jo have a very thorough tutorial on their site. They used these candy jewels to decorate a Princess Peach birthday cake for a Super Mario-themed party. [via EMSL]
If you can make it to the campground to make traditional s’mores, try bringing the campground to your kitchen with these amazing-looking s’mores milkshakes from Alison Lewis for Make and Takes.
I’ve mentioned my friends Scott Constable and Ene Osteraas-Constable on the CRAFT blog before, and Scott’s recent post about the ideal characteristics of the venerable sawhorse, along with a photo of some beautiful “indoor sawhorses” he’s made seemed like good fodder for a mention here. Scott writes: To me, there’s also something inherently a little […]
Need a crafty, useful, eco-friendly gift idea for Father’s Day? Betz White has a quick and easy tutorial for making an apron from a canvas tote, perfect for summer grilling. So clever! Plus, you know Dad will love anything you made yourself.
If you live in an apartment, you know that lugging your bike up the staircase is no fun. Back in MAKE Volume 11, Virginia-based maker Matthew Russell shared instructions for making his simple swiveling balcony hoist with us. For about $50 (or less, depending on what you have laying around the workshop), build the hoist […]
