The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
The AIGA/LA, the professional association for design, along with Santee Village Lofts, will be hosting Craftivism, an outdoor marketplace bringing activism together with crafts. This one-day crafts fair is open to the public and will feature local designers showcasing unique products, contemporary artwork and one-of-a-kind design gifts for sale. All ticket sales will benefit the […]
8-bit lab rat’s educational electronic projects for classic videogaming (Atari, Intellivision, Colecovision, and others) Link.
Remember the Playaflies? Here’s a PDF on how to make your own! – Link.
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories have a one minute project, bike tube rubber bands – Link. Related: Bicycle dual inner tube system – Link. HOW TO – Bicycle Frame Protection – Link. Inner tube chair seat caning – Link. HOW TO – Make an inner-tube wallet – Link. Life belt from old inner tubes – Link.
Apartment Therapy Green Home points to Jenny Hurth who makes bags and a variety of other products from discarded vinyl signs or banners. Pictured above are her grocery totes and laundry hampers. From the Jenny Hurth site: Everything you see on this site has been designed & hand sewn in the San Francisco Bay Area […]
Julian writes – Coolest Altoids/Tin mod I’ve seen. This guy (Greg Sanders) made a portable game box that plays a rogue like game. He uses a Genesis controller to control the actual game, but I’d bet with a little work the entire unit could be entirely self-contained (by using a tipping-disk for directional control and […]
When I was a kid I loved playing grocery store and would grab my dad’s electronic calculator and use up all up all the rolls of paper. Now, Kids Craft Weekly shows you how you can make with your kids their own toys to play shop complete with a cash register made from a cereal […]
