The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
Mother’s Day is coming up on Sunday, May 10th so we though it would be fun to round up some of our past CRAFT projects and recipes for you to make for dear Mom. Sew up a bunch of these quilted potholders. Tie them up indivdually with ribbon and place them all in a woven […]
My good pal, Jodi, tipped me off to this insanely decadent-looking dessert from CakeSpy. It’s a sweet take on the traditional grilled cheese sandwich, and involves butter, pound cake and cheesecake (i.e. my three favorite things). Healthy? Unlikely. Fabulous? Most definitely. Thanks, Jodi!
Here’s a robo-blimp that some students at Colorado State University designed. They score points just for coming up with the name infraLED Zeppelin. The article includes PDF build instructions and a complete parts list. Gadget Freak Case 139: The Autonomous Blimp [Thanks, Phillip!]
CRAFT friend Beth Goza (@bethgo) is doing a “Knitting in Code” at 9:45pm at Ignite Seattle 6 on Wednesday night. Beth writes: Remember the joy of writing your first Hello World application? Do you still have a copy somewhere so you can gaze upon your coded baby steps into the world of binary goodness? In […]
My friend Matt Mets has been coming up with some great uses for the bags and bags of lemons we’ve been trying to use up. This time he’s making Vietnamese salty lemonade, made with brined (and pickled) lemons.
MAKE HQ reports that they had a nice turnout and a fine time this past weekend at Hillsdale Shopping Center in San Mateo. Our compadre Kent Barnes took these photos and has more in his photostream. It was a great opportunity to reach out to people who might otherwise not have previous exposure to MAKE. […]
Adafruit industries took a little field trip recently to W/—— project space in Chinatown, NYC to check out Peter Sand’s robot-tended garden. The giant robot creates a garden, plants seeds, waters them and lovingly tends to it – the operator can control the robotics with a game controller and for the Arduino fans, it has […]
