How-To: Plush Ghosts
Learn how to make these cute and easy plush ghosts by In the Heights. I love how she uses them as hanging window decor!
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Bicycles & tricycles; an elementary treatise on their design and construction
Via No Tech Magazine comes a link to a digital version of this wonder 1896 bicycle treatise Bicycles & tricycles; an elementary treatise on their design and construction, with examples and tables,” from Archibald Sharp (1896).
Tiny Knit Candy Corn Pattern
Here’s a sugar-free way to enjoy your candy corn this Halloween. I must admit that I have a bit of an addiction to these little treats. Now you can knit these tiny candy corn thanks to Mochimochi Land’s free knitting pattern. Knit up a bowlful!
Classic Castle Dracula Lego vignette
From Mark Kelso, aka Flickr user Amhakia, based on the classic set from the classic black and white films. The grayscale filter is, admittedly, a big part of the magic. [via The Brothers Brick]
Super Mario retro room mural
Nathan Roberts wrote a great step-by-step on how he revamped a plain bedroom into something special for his son. And with the pixelated retro Super Mario theme, this should appeal to some older “kids” in our audience as well.
Lego follow focus
German maker havoc2 created this neat follow focus out of Lego. He’s working on written building instructions, but has an excellent video tutorial in the meantime. [Thanks, Jonathan!]
Lego Mindstorms NXT model builder
Will Gorman’s clever “printer” assembles simple models by pulling bricks from a gravity-fed magazine that holds 35 each of five different types of Lego elements. I’ve always wondered if I could build a Lego machine that assembles Legos. I finally came up with an idea this summer to make it happen. The printer uses 3 […]