The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the industrial arts from metal and woodworking to CNC machining and 3D printing.
Martha Stewart Kids is now on newsstands, with some cute ideas for summer parties (my birthday was always lost during the Christmas holidays, so I pined for a fun summer party): “From themed birthday parties, to scrumptious cookie cakes and irresistible goody bags, the Summer 2007 special issue of Good Things for Kids is chock […]
Kid powered merry-go round, Popular Science 1934 – Link. More: PlayPumps – Kid powered merry-go-round water pumps – Link. Propeller drives homemade flying merry-go-round – Link.
Dug North has a nice write up and review of the Kreg pocket hole joinery system, he writes – Are you inclined to make things yourself from wood, but are short on the skills required for complex wood joints? Are you an accomplished woodworker who just wants a faster way to make a variety of […]
Chris shows you how to make some large cheap white boards… …the same material that they make most commercial whiteboards out of is available at most big-box lumber stores like Home Depot for less than $15. “Showerboard”, which is basically cheap plywood with a waterproof white plastic coating on one side. Its the same stuff […]
ThreadBanger’s Threadheads has a tutorial on how to sew up this sizzlin’ summer bikini from old t-shirts. Also, don’t miss their recent coverage of the Renegade Craft Fair in Chicago. Link.
Todbot (author of Roomba Hacking) has a review of the iRobot Create Robot, he writes – At the 2007 CES iRobot announced a robot explicitly designed for hobbyist and educational robotics experimenters called the iRobot Create. The iRobot Create is now shipping and iRobot kindly sent me one to review and verify it’s applicability to […]
Garage ski builders are outdoing the pros.
