The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
AmberLee of Giver’s Log points us to a tutorial she put together last year for making your own seed tape. The intent of seed tape as I’ve seen it is to make planting easier when you have teeny tiny seeds that need to be planted just inches apart (like carrots and radishes). But it’s also […]
Lego artist Sean Kenney’s latest creation is a series of over 30 endangered animals, called Creatures of Habitat.
Kristen Rash curates the best plush art show in the country, Plush You! every year, and has announced that she’s now accepting applications for this fall’s show in Seattle. All you need are a few images of plush work you make (doesn’t have to be the exact pieces you would show) and a little gumption, […]
In a purely practical sense, this idea is kind of goofy since electric lights can, in general, be dimmed, you know, electrically. However, and if my understanding is correct, that’s a little trickier with fluorescent lighting. It can be done, but it’s considerably more complicated than with incandescent bulbs, and there are problems maintaining a consistent color temperature. Even though it’s not exactly ground-breaking, then, I still really like this mechanically-dimmed lamp by designer Camille Blin, at least in part because it reminds me of the cool tunable neutral density filters (e.g. below) I used to play with on the optics bench in grad school. [via NOTCOT]
This fitted sheet is printed to look like it’s made from concrete blocks. It’s a rad effect made by designer Peggy van Neer, and a portion of the proceeds from purchases go to benefit homeless youth in the Netherlands. [via Extreme Craft]
Elbow injuries suffered by pitchers in Major League Baseball occur frequently and result in tens of millions of dollars in losses each season, representing the money that must be paid in salaries to pitchers who cannot perform due to injury.
“No single device for measuring the quality of pitching mechanics currently exists, so we have proposed a shirt that is lightweight and can be worn during bullpen sessions or exhibition games,” said Moche. “The shirt can be used to show when a player becomes fatigued and his mechanics worsen, through a display of real-time information on a monitor in the dugout.”
The next meeting of Make: Philly is coming up on April 18th.
