The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
With Cinco de Mayo right around the corner, this oil cloth version of papel picado from Oil Cloth Addict would be a great way to bring the beauty of papel picado outdoors without fear of it being ruined by poor weather.
Ryan at Make:NYC writes in about this special Make:NYC lab meeting: You asked, we’re delivering. We’ll be covering various casting and molding, materials and techniques in this very awesome Make:NYC. We’ll be focusing on small object replication for rapid prototyping. Participants will be making their own rubber molds and casting resin parts with provided materials. […]
[Thanks, Kaas!]
These handmade electronics dice from the Dicecreator represent numerals via a historical timeline of component development – from the resistor on up to the integrated circuit. There’s nothing like generating random numbers the old fashioned way! [via SparkFun]
Moxie posted the latest piece of handmade fiber genius to her flickr account. This is the “Isle of Aisle”, one in her Lost at Sea Series. I think this is some very emotionally stirring work. The embroidery is a part of the Lost at Sea exhibition, opening at Hanahou Gallery in NYC on Thursday, May […]
Flickr user Robiwan Kenobi built this excellent Swiss Army knife out of Lego Technics and Bionicle pieces. [Via Brothers-Brick]
I like the sentiment behind this build by Ikea hacker mcquarris.
