The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
Despite only a few weeks in the planning, TC Maker‘s faire featured 16 exhibitors and attracted more than 500 visitors — not bad for the hacker collective that didn’t even have a space 2 months ago. There was a display of movie prop replicas, a display of circuit-bent gadgets, a wind turbine with blades ground […]
BarBot 2010… See you there! In a world where robots and humans struggle together in the fight against boredom. . . Only one event ends up with the robots dancing “The Human†while the meat puppets (you) end up singing the praises of RoboBartenders. This February, come hang out with some alternate life-forms at BarBot […]
One of my flickr contacts, christ(ine), posted this perfectly rendered sriracha embroidery. This is the only hot sauce in my house, and its sweetspicy is addictive. In fact, it has an almost cult-like following. I’m not surprised one bit that she felt compelled to stitch this up, but I am shocked at how well she […]
We’ve had many a discussion in our CRAFT offices with our photographer Sam Murphy about how hard it is to photograph food. For you budding food bloggers, take a visit to Chow.com’s slideshow 10 ways to photograph food for more inspiration. I like the approach used by Jamie Olivier pictured above where it’s real food […]
Yes, this is a missile. Sorry about that. But it turns out the AIM-9 Sidewinder is the only well-documented example I can find, on the web, of a machine that employs these interesting little widgets called “rollerons.” See the little metal pinwheels at the trailing corners of the fins? The rolleron is basically an air-driven gyroscope, as Tom Harris explains over on How Stuff Works:
If there ever is a day to do pink and dainty, it is today. To celebrate Valentine’s day, I cut some hyacinth and a small blade of fern and created a little flower arrangement in a delicate tea cup. The addition of moss makes this cut arrangement look like a planted one. Now I just […]
Fawn of Frugal Home Design shares how she whipped up these dandy display shelves for her children’s book collection. I love that it was an inexpensive alternative to pricier store-bought shelves (they came out just under $20!). [via The DIY Show Off]
