How-To: Paper Halloween Village
Claudine Hellmuth shares her tutorial for putting together a Halloween village made from paper. I love her trick for giving the houses a nice spooky shape. Check her blog to see how she did it!
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Maker Faire on the Travel Channel Tomorrow!
Set your DVRs for this awesome segment on the Travel Channel, filmed at Maker Faire Bay Area 2009. Extreme Conventions, Travel Channel, “This ain’t no Dental Convention!” Wednesday, September 23rd at 8PM Eastern time (check local listings for your area)
Bling for your bricks
There’s almost nothing that makes me as happy as a little Lego entrepreneurship. Remember BrickArms? Well, now there’s ChromeBricks, which will custom electroplate Lego elements of your choice, in your choice of gold, chrome, or copper. [via The Brothers Brick]
Lift-and-turn piston from PVC pipe fittings
This doo-dad is a telescoping PVC fitting sold as “Qwik Fix” or “Slip Fix.” It’s intended to be used to repair broken sections of pipe, but Chuck Rice has posted a venerable tutorial on converting one for use as a pneumatic piston in a haunted-house prop. Chuck’s design both lifts and turns with a single stroke. Clever!
DIY Arcade racing console
Over at 0-60mag.com they have a 60+ paged PDF tutorial that shows you how to build an official Need For Speed SHIFT racing cockpit.
Instructables Build Night Tonight in San Francisco
Randy at Instructables writes: I am thrilled to announce that Instructables Build Nights have returned with a vengeance. And our amazing new friends at The reMake Lounge are going to help host them and a host of upcoming Instructables workshops. We invite one and all to come and bring whatever it is you are working […]
Maker Faire on the Travel Channel tomorrow!
Set your DVRs for this awesome segment on the Travel Channel, filmed at Maker Faire Bay Area 2009. Extreme Conventions, Travel Channel, “This ain’t no Dental Convention!” Wednesday, September 23rd at 8PM Eastern time (check local listings for your area)