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These homebrew Wiimotes consist of an infrared LED from RadioShack, a 1.5v button battery, clothes pins, electrical tape, optional chopsticks for support, and a few more choice ingredients. Check out the below link for the full recipe. WiiMedia in $5 and 15 minutes, [via]
From Hack a Day: German engineering firm Festo has created this flying manta ray. Dubbed the Air_ray, it’s a balloon made of an aluminum-vaporised “PET foil”. Inflated with helium, the Air_ray’s propulsion system is a flapping wing drive. Each wing has alternating pressure and tension flanks that are attached to an internal set of ribs. […]
Jennifer points us to this clever craft: a pincushion ring made from a carton drink container pull-tab. Full instructions can be found on the Early Bird Special blog, who got the idea from Flickr user niki’smami.
Smitten Kitchen shares her experience making this amazing-looking S’more Pie from an old issue of Gourmet magazine. Graham-cracker crust, bittersweet chocolate filling, and a homemade toasted marshmallow topping–can you think of a better summertime dessert?
From the CRAFT Flickr pool, user Stimpetta made this knitted party bunting for a friend’s daughter from a pattern by Green Mountain Mama. I think these would make great decorations in a kid’s bedroom or classroom, or even for your RV sunshade!
This Saturday, June 7, Chronicle Books and Craft Gym will be hosting a party celebrating Lotta Jansdotter‘s new book, Lotta Prints. From Lotta’s blog: I would like to invite you to join me and my friends to do some fabric printing together. I have carved out some of my designs in rubber and potato stamps […]
RobotsRule has a written and video review of WowWee’s forthcoming Wrex the Dawg, a sort of comic-relief robot that, as Robert puts it “is absolutely terrible at being a dog and even worse at being a robot.” WowWee Wrex The Dawg Review
