The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
Howdy Makers, just getting back in saddle from Burning Man 2006, an arts festival held for 8 days in Nevada on the playa of the Black Rock Desert with 40,000 people, many of them Makers. In fact, besides the ticket price, the other requirement that seemed to be present was the Maker spirit. I’ve never […]
At Chicago’s Moto restaurant you’ll be able to enjoy papercrafts, that is rather, you’ll enjoy eating them. Chef Homaru Cantu modded his Canon inkjet printer with food-based ink which he prints onto edible paper. [ via ] Link.
Ben Heckendorn made a freaking Xbox 360 laptop, (buy his book, seriously) he writes – “A friend of mine asked back in May “Can you build an Xbox 360 laptop?” And I responded “Sure, can you pay for it?” He agreed, and thus I set forth on what was surely to be my most complex […]
Alexei (natrium42) hacked up a CF card adaptor for a Nintendo DS to connect up a 40GB hard drive, he writes “To get back to hardware development, I decided to do a quick IDE to GBAMP (GBA Movie Player v2) hack. I also took a few pictures for the few people interested in doing this […]
Now here’s a great craft site for kids projects which has original craft ideas for young kids (aged 2-5) posted weekly via email newsletter and online. This week’s topic is transportation where kids can make an easy propeller plane out of toothpaste and lightblub boxes. Link.
Professor of Biology and Chemistry David B. Fankhauser shows you how to make your own ginger ale – “Fermentation has been used by mankind for thousands of years for raising bread, fermenting wine and brewing beer. The products of the fermentation of sugar by baker’s yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae (a fungus) are ethyl alcohol and carbon […]
Using these molds you can grow veggies with faces on them – “Available in the form of an elf for shaping eggplant, melon, pumpkin, and squash, or the “pickle pair”, corncob or heart (makes heart-shaped cross sections when sliced) for use with cucumber, zucchini and summer squash. The molds can be used repeatedly. With zucchini, […]
