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While in Sunnyvale, I had to stop into the Weird Stuff Warehouse. They recycle and resell tons of old technology. Employees Grady and Jonathan showed me around and took me behind the scenes to show me some of their mad scientist projects. If you live in the bay area, this place is worth a field […]
Turning bombs into mufflers, Popular Science 1947 – “Practice air bombs, left over from the war, are being converted to a peacetime job. Air Forces trucks and autos in Germany urgently need mufflers, so the Bruck Air Ordnance Depot at Nuremberg is making them from surplus-bomb stocks. The project, started late in 1946, Has already […]
I have neat friends that send me interesting things in the mail, after a bit of travel I came home to this rare 1951 book called “How to make an atomic bomb in your own kitchen–well, practically!” by Bob Bale – I just started reading it, and so far it’s a great, if you can […]
If you are every looking for inspiration and a way for you to get your crafty creative juices going, check out the 52 Projects blog. From the site, “52 Projects is a site dedicated to thinking outside the craft. It’s all about projects and project-making. Project ideas, projects to create, projects to check out, and […]
Build a stowable mini workshop for modest tasks like lamp rewiring and scissor sharpening and soon you’ll be building your dreams.
Here’s a really neat stop motion film of retro video games using household objects – [via] – Link. Related: Frogger by PES – Link. Stop motion LEGO video – Link. How King Kong was made…the first one – Link. Stop Motion Animation, the Easy Way – With iStopMotion, making Gumby is less pokey. MAKE 02 […]
Crafter Jess Clement fell in love with craftmemo.com, a new site that is a craft record keeping and management tool for projects. She loves it so much, she even wrote up a review for us and shows us how to use the new Craft Memo site as place to inventory all your projects and supplies. […]
