The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
This video of Dia de los Muertos happening in the streets of San Francisco’s Mission district, posted by YouTube user documentdocument, is an otherworldly creation. To me, it embodies so many wonderful things about the art and craft of life and death. The participants of the event are an almost overwhelming subject. The face paint […]
I’ve been planning to make some fun, inexpensive holiday decorations this year, and I’m definitely going to try these retro felt Christmas trees from Felt-O-Rama. [via True Up]
LEGO minifig patent from 1979! [via @grantimahara] Update: A reader writes in with this clarification: Its not a patent but a design, in the legal sense (and practical). The difference is subtle, a patent is protects something like an apparatus (thing), a method of doing this apparatus and possibly how to operate said apparatus (let’s […]
MAKE subscriber John Duksta writes in to tell us that the Quahogcon Maker Culture/Information Security conference call for papers is now open. QuahogCon is a new conference, conveniently located in Providence, RI, and proceeds will go to benefit the FabLab hackerspace.
Korean product design firm MintPass came up with these great concept designs for real calculators that imitate their software implementations. [via Boing Boing]
Dot at Dabbled shares how to make these awesome edible Flying Spaghetti Monsters. I’m particularly fond of the peas for eyes.
Maker Aki Mimoto wrote in to let us know about his exciting new Arduino/VR/Web app mashup. He’s wired up his wife’s bike on a stationary platform to an Arduino using a reed sensor. Using the sensor data from the bike, along with data from a head mounted display (HMD), Ari is able to accurately pinpoint his position within Google Street View.
