The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
Manhattan area makers, get your reassembly on – Make:NYC Meeting 12 – Wednesday April 8th, 6:30PM Is it just me or is it getting warm outside? Celebrate spring with us at the next Make:NYC meeting! Challenge: Reconstruct the beast! Teams will get a box full of parts from a disassembled item. Item must be reconstructed […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool Carl gives an old-fashioned marble a shot of electric oomph with this upgrade – Arduino with motor shield controlling a continuous rotation servo. The wheel turns when marbles are detected by the infrared phototransistor and LED pair next to the wheel. Full set here, includes Arduino source and demo video. […]
I’m going crazy for patchwork lately and these adorable fabric Easter eggs by Retro Mama puts me in a sewing mood. [ via Whip Up ]
Photo from Petmar0 on Flickr Pete responded in the comments to the the call for designs in the Rural Celly Charger article on Saturday. How about connecting a joule-thief circuit (DC-DC upconverter) to a cap on one side and a small solar cell (like the ones in calculators) on the other? You pull off of […]
IndieSacramento is now accepting vendor applications for the IndieSacramento May Market on Saturday, May 2nd in Sacramento, CA. Check out the vendor page for more info.
Jenny Ryan has a cute project for a girl’s room (or your craft room) up at Apartment Therapy Oh Dee Doh to make this sweet little DIY Dress Decor.
Here’s an interesting woodworking project on Instructables: make a boomerang from firewood!
