Holiday Projects

Roasted Peeps

As Easter draws closer and all the pastel candy starts crowding the supermarket and drugstore shelves, consider buying some Peeps for a Peep Roast. They are marshmallows. With sugar on top! When you roast them, the sugar caramelizes. I might have to try this. A Gluten-Free Guide has instructions. But as you might guess, there’s […]

Needle-Felted Easter Peeps!

Megan Andersen, a crafter in Los Angleles, shares her cute as heck Needle-Felted Easter Peeps! “Making your own FELTED bunnies is a great was to stay festive, without packing in the sugar!” she explains, and truer words were never written.  If you are in the Santa Monica, CA area, take her class on April 16 at […]

Animatronic Peep Show

Animatronic Peep Show

The good kind. You know, with little marshmallow candies shaped like chicks baby birds. Built by Kyle Ringgenberg:

In the spirit of Easter, I’ve designed and constructed an audio-animatronic “Peep” Show. This is inspired by a long-running pun amongst of group of friends of mine. Total part count: 10 Servos, 29 LEDs, 1 Arduino, 1 Audio Decoder IC, 1 Push Button, 1 0.5 W Speaker, ~650 Lines of Code, 3 Sheets of Foamboard, 5? of Balsa Wood, 3? of Dowels, 25? of Wire, & 11 Peeps.

[Thanks, Rachel!]

How-To: Plastic Bag Crochet

Research suggests that 500 billion to 1 trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide each year. The city of San Francisco has banned plastic bags in large markets and pharmacies for a few years now. Most of the time I carry my foldable tote in my handbag so I usually never have to have a plastic […]