The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
Maura Madden, author of Crafternoon: A Guide to Getting Artsy and Crafty with Your Friends All Year Long, and Jessica Pigza, The Handmade Librarian, have just announced that they will be hosting a series of Crafternoons this fall at the historic NYC Public Library. I can’t imagine a better way to spend a cozy New […]
Yesterday, I posted a reprinted from my old tech site, Street Tech, of a piece I did on Zach DeBord’s solar-powered vibrobots. Here’s another piece from Street Tech, one on building solarrollers, a simple kind of solar-powered car common in beginner BEAM robotics. Like the vibrobots, this would make a perfect project for a family […]
Del Cruiser has been working on building a “bakfiets” (box bike/cargo bike) from junked bikes and parts. He’s keeping a photojournal of his progress on Flickr. This project was inspired by the “Carrier Pidgeon” , which is a chinese-made imitation that has a shorter payload. By nature, bakfiets take some time getting used to due […]
From Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories, take a bite from a more delicious version of Monty Python‘s #4 Crunchy Frog, using gummi frogs and Pop Rocks.
I tasted my first mojito in the mid- to late 90s in a bar called Absinthe in San Francisco. A co-worker named Mike Little insisted that I taste his, and one sip later I was hooked. Back at home, I searched for various recipes, did some testing, and at the next backyard BBQ with friends, […]
I never thought pies this small as an option, but I bet you could make these pie pops in the toaster oven, even!
Amy at Empress of Creativity created a DIY aviary for her finches from an old armoire. Behind the scenes shots and more descriptions on the process can be found here.
