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Nokia announces bike-powered phone charger… The bike charger relies on the well-tested and durable bottle-dynamo to convert your pedaling into power, and the phone is held to the handlebars with a big rubber-band. In between is a box of circuitry to give a nice smooth current to any device equipped with a 2mm jack. The […]
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MAKE subscriber Sam Seide (Oklahoma City, OK) makes these amazing cocktail arcade machines. Here’s his most impressive build to date, a two-player tiny cocktail arcade. Here he gives a pretty extensive tour of the build. Tiny Cocktail Arcade Auction More: Restoring a Pac-Man cocktail arcade machine
Green Wedding Shoes is my current favorite wedding blog. The events are quality, and the posts are through and inspiring. Yesterday GWS posted yet another incredible wedding with stunning crafty and green details. I can’t decide between my favorite details: the linen flowers in the bouquet, the boutonnières and all the centerpieces; the cupcake lasagna […]
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Looking to take a break from tinkering on your latest project this weekend? Here are some fine maker events to check out, from The Maker Events Calendar.
Our own operations manager, Rob Bullington, was excited to share his sister Laura’s latest garden creation. Laura Lee refined this planter idea she saw in the magazine Birds & Blooms. The article describing “Tipsy Pots” was a little too vague and didn’t address some issues she had regarding irrigation, because the clay pots tended to […]
