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Savory Baking: Warm and Inspiring Recipes for Crisp, Crumbly, Flaky Pastries by Mary Cech, photographs by Noel Barnhurst As it gets colder this autumn, what could be lovelier than a leisurely weekend day in a warm kitchen? Baking at home is fun and rewarding, but there are only so many cookies and cakes you and […]
The neatest part about this, er, “Pie of Sauron” pumpkin build by AnubisTTP is the vintage Soviet ‘dekatron’ counting tube that burns at its pupil. It’s also got LED backlighting inside. And I couldn’t resist posting this little dekatron animated .gif from the Wikipedia article:
Heather Bailey has created a free pattern for this cute bat doll that’s made from a sock, wool felt and scraps of fabric.
I had these grand plans of completing my levitating baby head, I even started about a month ago, but even with such an early start, there just doesn’t seem to be enough time in the day. Enter Robot Zombie Cat!
Instructables user craineum made these really incredible Yoshi and Mario costumes for his toddlers. You may remember him from last year’s Mega Man costume. Those are lucky kids! I remember one year being Tweety Bird, and my mom made a similarly large mascot-style piece of headgear. Who needs peripheral vision when you’ve got candy? More: […]
Zibri did some investigative hacking with the Force Trainer (brainwave controlled toy) and posted a basic interface schematic using a MAX3233 to interface with his PC via serial. It turns out the EEG headset is sending out data as ASCII characters @ 57600 baud – should make for some quick and easy hacking! Time to […]
Good tutorial on putting together a pneumatic power system for “home imagineering,” as as the folks at Phantasmechanics call it. We’ve blogged their stuff a couple times before.
