The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
On Sunday, August 26th at Waterloo Park (12th and Trinity) is the 17th Annual Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival from 11am – 5:30pm. Did you know that more than one hundred gallons of hot sauce are consumed at the event every year? Wowza! Local restaurants will also be on hand to show off their spicy […]
Summer is the time to chomp into a big, juicy, pink watermelon with friends and family. Spoofee has got a handy guide to picking a good one: • Tap the watermelon with your knuckles and listen for a hollow sound • There should be little color contrast between the green stripes • The end should […]
If your in San Francisco this weekend, there’s a special event, Chemo Caps & Other Head Huggers for Cancer Patients, happening Saturday at Craft Gym (1452 Bush St.) from Noon to 3pm. From the site: Make and donate chemo caps and other head huggers for cancer patients currently undergoing chemotherapy. Knitters, crocheters, and stitchers of […]
Look at these adorable baseball cupcakes Su-Yin made and shows you the process from her sketchbook to finished pieces. Link.
Wow! The Handmade music night @ ETSY with MAKE and Create Digital Music was AWESOME. Special thanks to everyone who attended, played and hacked around. The best way to describe an event like this is: Homemade Theremin crutches. Update: Write up from Peter – Link. Here are a load of photos from MAKE! – Link […]
Loud objects will be @ Germany and New York, Tristan writes – We’ve brought our microchips to Cologne, Germany for a crazy festival of “art and music with the overhead projector.” There are projectors all over the place with twitching motors, liquids and anything else you can think of on them. Leah Wechsler and Chris […]
A user on the Hacked Gadgets Forum posted this simple conversion of a common wall-wart into a USB power supply/device charger. He used the power adapter from an old Iomega drive and a few common components. I’ve seen several versions of these floating around. Easy to make. Nice to have around. DIY Wall-Wart USB Power […]
