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People in (recycled) glass houses… DIY: Backyard Hideaway Made from Old Windows Gallery
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From Craft Kitsch to Cool
From Craft Kitsch to Cool By Jessica Wilson I’m a big fan of color. In junior high it was all about red, black and white. In high school, I lived in the Tweeds catalogue and pined for pine, teal and mustard. In my early twenties, it was all about eggplant and forest green, and in […]
Paintball turret plans for download
We haven’t heard much from Jared Bouck, of Invent Geek, recently. But he wrote in to tell us that he’s released free downloadable plans for his paintball turret gun.They also now have a kit available. Paintball Turret Plans More: Paintball turret gun
The office crossbow
From the MAKE Flickr pool Wow – feeling pretty lucky I don’t share a workplace Flickr member zomie84 and his cubicle crossbow – Designed to shoot marshmellows, pens, or just about anything you can fit in it to attack your cube mates. I can get about 25ft with a bic pen. The trigger is spring […]
Don’t forget your soldering challenge!
It’s Lucas again, our poster child for the MAKEcation Family Soldering Challenge. Here he is (note: safety glasses this time!) working on his second soldering project, a Drawdio. Lucas (and family) get a free Maker’s Notebook because they posted pics of their MAKEcation to the MAKE Flickr pool. The next four people who post their […]
Prehistoric lumber
Ancientwood, Ltd., is a US company that imports 50,000-year-old Kauri logs that have been preserved for millennia in peat bogs under New Zealand’s northern island. Besides its value as a conversation piece, ancient Kauri is mined, rather than logged, and no live trees are killed in the process. Kauri trees (Agathis spp.) thrive in New […]
Through-color MDF
German chemical giant BASF pioneered the technology to colorize the traditionally blah-colored world of manufactured wood products like medium-density fiberboard (MDF). Besides requiring no or little finishing, through-color MDF will not betray scrapes or scratches like painted material. It has been available in Europe for awhile now, but only relatively recently in the US through […]