The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
Francesca Pitcher from North Star Cakes in the UK created this disturbingly realistic Burmese python cake for her daughter’s birthday. She posted it on her Facebook page and it’s gone viral from there. Decorative cake guru Duff Goldman from Ace of Cakes even tweeted about it. Nice job, but maybe too realistic. I think I […]
This is, by far, my favorite DIY project by the P.S. I Made This. They always knock it out of the park but this mint green ombre wall is next-level-awesome.
Keep your alfresco meals safe on windy days with these ingenious rock and wire tablecloth weights from Helena at Craft & Creativity! More: How-To: Glowing Outdoor Orbs @Craftzine.com blog How-To: Outdoor Oilcloth Placemats @Craftzine.com blog How-To: Wine Bottle Citronella Candle @Craftzine.com blog
For today’s Maker Camp Field Trip Friday, we travel to the Smithsonian Institute’s Museum of Natural History to visit human origins researcher Briana Pobiner. From the Smithsonian’s G+ page: Briana Pobiner will show us the tools humans used for the earliest DIY projects thousands of years ago. Humans have always been makers–you might say we […]
This giant-size version of Operation from Brian of the Lansing Makers Network was an absolute hit at Maker Faire Detroit. The game is played just like the original and uses scaled up pieces and kitchen tongs as tweezers.
Randy Grubb has one sweet job: working from his Grants Pass, Ore., garage, he builds hot rods. His rides, however, are far from ordinary — he builds from supersized truck, jet, and tank parts.
Lego hacker Nico71, whose mechanical loom we posted earlier, built this great CVT: Based on modified version of Zblj’s Transmission. This CVT enables a variation of the speed (and the torque) from 40rpm to 200 (1/5, 1,1) with constant speed for the motor (200rpm). This device is on the way to be included in a […]
