The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
Flickr user fotogra4er replaced the fluorescent tubes lighting his aquarium with LEDs. Which, of course, make way more light and way less heat for the same amount of energy. Then he upped the ante by cooling the LED lighting bank by circulating tank-water through it, which exploits what waste heat the LEDs do generate to warm the tank-water, and in turn saves power that would otherwise go to the tank heater.
To me, the real signs of spring are blooming bulb flowers and wind (there’s a lot of wind in New Mexico in March, let me tell you!). So when I was sent a copy of the kid crafts book What Shall We Do Today? by Catherine Woram, I was particularly interested in the homemade wind […]
Cathe Holden’s ability to think big with small items appears to have no bounds. This time she’s scanned in and manipulated fantastic graphics from a vintage deck of cards box. She shows how to mount the graphics to canvases and distress them to create a truly vintage look. The result is fantastic, and she’s offered […]
Model maker and retired farmer Alex Garrard has spent over 33,000 hours bringing his scale model of Herod’s Temple to life. Meticulously researched, it accommodates over 4,000 figures and occupies over 200 square feet.
Here’s a wonderful glimpse of spring: the LA Times blog has posted about Gene Bauer, an LA-based artist who created a series of handmade booklets (really a zine more than anything) back in the early 1970s to send out to members of the California Garden Clubs. The booklets were recently rediscovered and published (you can […]
Jason Moungey of macetech dropped me an e-mail yesterday to let me know that the 9×9 RGB LED matrix table they were showing off at Maker Faire Bay Area 2009 (as shown above) has been upgraded with a Bluetooth shield that lets it receive tweets that control the display. Construction and programming details are available here, and there’s a live feed of the table here.
So, the other day I was at a local tavern, picking up tickets to see the Green String Farm Band. And there in the corner was a man holding a folder that said “Morris” on it. Now, seeing as I just happen to be named Morris, I felt the impulse to say hello. The man’s […]
