The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
Guy Vardi writes in: The clock is build out of bicycle parts. One of the design principles was to use only used elements. Edison once said that to invent you need good imagination and a pile of junk. The designers took his advice seriously. The Bike clock was build by Yedidya Vardi and Vladimir Zviagintsev […]
The folks in Design & Technology at Parsons the New School for Design are having their MFA thesis show this Friday at the Chelsea Art Museum in New York. Projects will range from interactive installations to animations to computational graffiti to anything you can imagine. 2008 MFA Design & Technology Thesis Show Opening: Friday, May […]
Dug sent in this page on the topic of secret compartments for furniture. Beyond the drawer, the table featured actually has a double-secret hidden box. – Hidden Drawers [via Automata/Automaton blog] Related: HOW TO – Build your own secret bookshelf door In the Maker Shed: Woodworkers Pocket Ref
Ann, an avid bike rider, created this felted handlebar bag for her bicycle. She posted basic instructions how to create one for your own bike.
Teresa from Sewing Stars created these vegetable softies on a whim as a break from some other sewing. I like the broccoli.
I checked out the last day of Cai Guo-Qiang’s exhibit at the Guggenheim in NYC, the exhibit is best known for the suspended cars with LED pole lights coming out of them, but I think gun powder-exploded canvases were my favorite, I’d like to try to make some of those outside the city limits of […]
Todd Lappin, MAKE contributor and current guest blogger on Dinosaurs and Robots, has a strange collection compulsion that I don’t share, but I can totally understand. He has a control panel fetish. Hey, now. Don’t judge. Everybody is wired differently. Todd just happens to be wired to toggle switches, panel lights, and needle gauges. And […]
