The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
The tastebud-having world has been abuzz lately about the NY Times perfect chocolate chip cookie. I got to taste one the other day (thanks Karen Bonna). Not Martha blogger, Megan, bought the equipment, followed the recipe and shared the cookie details for our vicarious cookie enjoyment. What about you guys? Has anyone tried the recipe […]
Alex writes – Just want to let everyone know about a very special upcoming Be-In Event hosted by Reed Ghazala ( Father of Circuit Bending ) in Ohio next month (Sunday Sept 7th). The location is a beautiful camp ground close to Cincinnati. There will be music, trading, camping, and good times to be had […]
Claire from Poopscape shows us how she made these offbeat placemats using the bleach stencil technique. Aside from just looking cool, I’m thinking these would make it easy to teach your kids how to set the table. Related: • HOW TO – Sew a Reversible Placemat • Patchwork Placemat Tutorial • @ MAKE: Freezer Paper […]
This project shows you how to hack a standard computer keyboard to build your own Guitar Hero-Like controller for “Frets on Fire”, the free, open source Guitar Hero clone from Finalnd. Really nice build pics here with step-by-step instructions to get you rocking in no time. Hacking a toy guitar to make a “Frets on […]
What happens when you release a 3D movement dataset of Thom Yorke’s head? Somebody uses it to recreate the video, frame by frame, in LEGO (Watch the high quality vid for the best experience). Via Create Digital Motion. More: RA DIOHEA_D / HOU SE OF_C ARDS – Radiohead releases data set Radiohead on a Sinclair […]
Zakka Life shows us how to make these modern and fabulous chopstick rests made from decoupaged rocks. I like her suggestion of pairing a set with some chopsticks to give as a hostess gift.
In-season fruit makes the best pie, and my friend Randy’s been craving his mom’s blueberry crumb pie, so he got the recipe and made it. And an instructable about it! Delicious.
