The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
Summer is over. Let the Halloween hacks begin! This one, sent to us by David Fowler of uC Hobby, uses printer mechanics, a BASIC Stamp, and a Park Zone light (an ultrasonic proximity detector used for tight-space garage parking). It senses when someone is close to the front door and triggers a pumpkin to rise […]
Here’s an instructable on how to turn a favorite bottle of yours into a lamp, with few tools and $10 worth of supplies at the hardware store. Make a Lamp from a Bottle (Instructables) – Link. From the pages of CRAFT CRAFT: 04 – “Pop Bottle Lamp” by Jason Torchinsky and Sally Myers pgs. 127-129. […]
The Aurigid Meteor shower happen 9/1 (today)… around 4am for the folks on the west coast, National Geographic has all the details… A meteor shower on Saturday morning will present a rare greeting from the distant Oort cloud located at the far edges of our solar system. The two-hour Aurigid meteor shower is predicted to […]
For everyone with the next 3 days off, have a great holiday weekend! Here’s a knitted BBQ from the CRAFT photo pool! – Link.
I love craftlog’s tutorial on how to make this elegant shell button necklace which is simple to make. It could also look fun with buttons of varying color or color tones. Definitely time to revisit my button collection! Link.
Steve Paine, a.k.a. Chippy, is a Brit living in Germany. He’s currently on a bike trip, along the Rhein River, which he’s blogging about using a UMPC (Ultra-Mobile PC) and portable solar tech. Those geeks in the house who are as ancient as I am will remember Steve Roberts, the “high-tech nomad,” who took net-connected, […]
Timothy Ferriss, author of the 4-Hour Workweek, shows you how to do some nifty pen tricks in this video tutorial. Is this what you end up doing with all that voluminous free time? Tim Ferriss Pen Tricks – Link Related: How to do (and make) magic tricks – Link HOW TO – Shave a deck […]
