The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
Here’s a great homemade Commodore 64 joystick made from wood! Matthias writes – “My motivation for this little hack, like many other hacks, was not so much the novelty of building one, but avoiding the expense of buying one. Having a Commodore 64, and not wanting to spend money buying a joystick, I started experimenting […]
The (2^(30402457) – 1)th dorkbot-nyc meeting will take place on Wednesday, October 4th, 2006, at 7pm at Location One in SoHo. – Link. Rob Seward: The CONSCIOUSNESS FIELD RESONATOR The CFR is a device based on ESP research performed at Princeton University. It is designed so the owner can have a personal experience of the […]
A Liszewski says, “This guy has been updating his library of pumpkin stencils over the years and his catalog is just brilliant. He’s a great artist and the site covers everything from movies to classical monsters. Some stencils are more involved than others when it comes to carving but the results have always been amazing. […]
MAKE pal Bf5man writes – “Since this is the Halloween Maker Festival :)… Here’s a huge list of halloween projects, like a blooding portrait, a bottomless pit or a mechanised rocking chair. That rocking chair project is simple but looks good” – Link. Related: Get your Halloween hacks on – Link.
We all know in the craft world how much we adore Blythe. We sew and knit clothes for her like the pattern up top from Knitty (which also has some great background info on the big eyed doll). Style her and add her to the flickr pool. According to CRAFT friend Andrea Tung, our favorite […]
The Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories shows you how to make a simple & fun croc costume out of cardboard, Lenore writes – “Here’s how to make a fun, simple crocodile costume out of a cardboard box and some butcher paper. Okay, it was originally supposed to be a caiman costume, as we tend toward the […]
Cowlacious Designs shows you how to make “cave eyes”, schematic, code, circuit board layout, and parts list included or you can buy a kit/complete unit… – “This is a little microcontroller circuit that has 15 pairs of L.E.D.’s that look like rodent eyes. The pairs of eyes blink in a semi-random fashion. So, what you […]
