The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
Nini Makes created these sweet and adorable felt and button cards for Mother’s Day, which is celebrated in March in the UK. It’s not too early to start planning Mother’s Day crafts for our US celebration in May, and these look like just the kind of fun thing I’d love to make for all my […]
I don’t know about you, but I have definitely got the spring cleaning bug now that nicer weather is starting to roll in, so my eyes lit up when I saw this great Spring Cleaning Dust Mitt Tutorial over at We Wilsons. (Does that make me old?) It’s a great way to reuse old garments […]
We’ve all heard of committing random acts of kindness (what a glorious thing), but what about random acts of gardening? Guerrillagardening.org, based in London, provides plenty of inspiration, as well as tips and a community forum on transforming neglected public spaces into flourishing gardens, renegade-style, after dark. Their motto is “Let’s fight the filth with […]
Many of us can recall repeatedly trying to load up NES cartridges that, for one reason or another, decided to display shifting screens of random bits instead of their intended game. No Carrier’s open source glitchNES software makes exploring those accidental realms of digital art easy. Alter the code to your heart’s content then load […]
OMG! If I’d found this gem glowing underneath the aluminum Christmas tree when I was a kid, I’d have sprained something in my geekly excitement. I think I’d sprain something now… my wallet. This kit sold for a rather steep-at-the-time $50 and goes for 100 times that now. But I’d still be tempted. I think […]
Instructables Member GTIG has a well documented Instructable on creating a tactile Rubik’s cube. This cube brings a unique characteristic to solving a Rubik’s cube that no other cube does… the ability to say “I solved it without even looking at it once.” Rather than building hand-eye coordination, it builds hand-mind coordination. I find that […]
Don’t forget: it’s time to apply for Bazaar Bizarre at Maker Faire Bay Area! The application deadline is April 1, so you still have time for a chance to participate in this fantastic craft fair at Maker Faire Bay Area. I talked with Bazaar Bizarre co-organizer, Jamie Chan, and got the low down on what […]
