HOW TO – T-Shirt Book Cover
Lorina, a member of the Etsy NewNew Street Team, shares how to turn a t-shirt into a snazzy stretch book cover.
Science
DIY science is the perfect way to use your creative skills and learn something new. With the right supplies, some determination, and a curious mind, you can create amazing experiments that open up a whole world of possibilities. At home-made laboratories or tech workshops, makers from all backgrounds can explore new ideas by finding ways to study their environment in novel ways – allowing them to make breathtaking discoveries!
Cross country ski stroller
Aptly named Instructables user dirtydiaperchanger made this X-country ski stroller with relatively inexpensive materials. I hope my brother is reading, since he’s got a little one up in Maine where there’s five feet of snow.
Building papercrete domes
I blog about Mikey and Wendy’s projects very frequently because they’re doing so many cool things. One of the most impressive is their papercrete dome, which is now documented in this Instructable: When my girlfriend (Wendy Tremayne) and I arrived in southern New Mexico one of the first things we did was look around for […]
Build an inexpensive cave surveying apparatus
Here’s a how-to on building the “Auriga”, a portable electronic sensor box and cave surveying instrument with an electronic compass and serial output that can be cataloged using a computer or PDA. This particular build uses an old Palm PDA to collect the data. Check out the link below for parts list and details on […]
Lamps made from recycled cardboard will illuminate your world
Santiago Morahan’s cardboard furniture is a cheap and easy solution for the multitudes of cardboard boxes that most people have hanging around their homes. The artist has stacked them up, cut a hole in the middle, and fire-proofed the cardboard so that the heat of the lamp doesn’t burn down the house. The result looks […]
Pedaling across the ocean blue
The latest New Scientist has a piece on Ted Ciamillo, the machinist who invented the hydrospeeder (think: Bondian underwater motorcycle) and the Lunocet (a tail for divers modeled on dolphins). Ciamillo’s latest project is a human-powered mini-sub he plans to use to pedal across the Atlantic: Ciamillo designed his mini-submarine around a larger version of […]
Rapid prototyped stingray
Bre writes – I recently met Greg Marra at ROFLthing. He is doing awesome work at Olin College. I found this sweet video of a stingray automaton that he and his team made in a rapid prototyping class. I asked him some questions about how it works, he got back to me and brought me […]
