The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
By Katie Goodman Making homemade turkey broth is relatively simple after your Thanksgiving feast. And it tastes absolutely delicious and rich. You can control what’s in it — that means no MSG and lots of flavor — when you make it yourself. This recipe for broth assumes you have already picked off any remaining meat […]
Jim Grisanzio went to the Make: Tokyo Fall 2009 meeting, and took some gorgeous photos of the event.
A recent article in the Los Angeles Times reports that New Mexico expats (and those in the know) can now find good quality green chile in the freezer section of grocery stores in southern California. I’ve checked up here in northern Cali, and we’re not so lucky. So, as a good NM native living elsewhere, […]
I love the embroidered and appliqued scenes that Melissa of Checkout Girl’s creates. Their color, detail and design make them so much fun. Now she’s sharing a tutorial for how to create your own embroidered and appliqued scene perfect for the winter holidays.
For those bored by the portability of thumb drives, a 14GB furniture set designed to encourage data sharing – The sofas were made by creative design studio Cabracega for last year’s International Festival for the Post-Digital Creation Culture (OFFF). As you can see (you’ll have to squint a little) the sofas have USB cables coming […]
SensorFly, a prototype from the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University shows just how robust the current crop really is. Knock down one of these sensor-packed hovering whirlygigs and it reorients itself to take flight again in a matter of seconds
(Photo: Freegan.info, Dumpster divers in Australia) Abundant Waste: The Gleaner’s Role & Tips for Dumpster Diving By Wendy Tremayne A Herman Miller chair, an iPod, a commercial juicer, Charles Russell prints, a china cabinet, used vegetable oil (for fuel), 400 USB thumb drives, and a 5-foot-diameter fiberglass globe. This is a short list of items […]
