The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is offering up $500 to the best pumpkin with FSM related art carved in to it… If you plan on entering their contest, you can also enter ours with the same pumpkin too… [via] – Link. Related: Flying Spaghetti Monster Pumpkin contest 2006 – Link. Enter the MAKE & […]
Here’s an older Halloween project, but still fun to check out. It’s a giant robot costume made from thrown out junk, Chaintool writes “I spent a week raiding laundry mats trashcans in search of empty bottles gathering about 60 of assorted shapes and sizes. I also found two pairs of crutches (for stilts), and a […]
Mod god Ben Heck has a great how-to on adding an analog joystick to a PSP, he writes – “History is littered with game systems using far-too-stubby of controller sticks. From the Intellivision’s “disc of doom,” to Coleco’s “shaft of stiffness” (quiet, you!), and even now, in this high-tech age, the Sony PSP’s “sliding nub […]
Our friends at Design News have a new “Gadget Freak” how-to, this one is for Halloween, a lightning strobe! – “When the local church needed storm effects for a skit, sound man Dick Neubert found the thunder on the Internet and added “lightning” with a photoflash strobe. He used an uncommitted output from the mixing […]
Max added more tech to his DIY hovercraft and made a Halloween version, the one is controlled via Bluetooth! The video is fun, Max is really in to it… – Link. Related: DIY Hovercraft… – Link. Hoverwing – Hovercraft / Hoverplane kit – Link. DIY Hovercraft with 4 PC fans @ 22V! – Link. Homemade […]
Bay Area (CA) Makers, this looks like a lot of fun (tonight)… – “Radio Handi is hosting a happy hour for phone geeks. Tuesday Oct 10th at the Phone Booth, 25th and S Van Ness in San Francisco. This is a phreak potluck. We’re asking everyone to bring an interesting fixed line phone (rotary phones […]
Here’s a modded version of the “HotHead” (aka Lunatic’s Flaming Skull)” Scary Terry writes – “I use a 4″ fan mounted near the ground and PVC pipe to direct the air into the Bucky skull. The air flow from the 4″ fan is superior to that of the 3″ fan. Additionally, instead of using incandescent […]
