How to Make Your Own Solder Flux
Learn how easy it is to make your own solder flux at home.
Month: June 2012
DIY Succulent Terrarium
What a great twist on terrarium creation! That’s Quirky turned an old light fixture into a funky, unique succulent terrarium. A wonderful way to upcycle a household item. More: How-To: Mini Terrarium Necklace @Craftzine.com blog My Own Moss Terrarium @Craftzine.com blog How-To: Sew a Terrarium @Craftzine.com blog
Tips for Using Eyelet Borders in Garment Sewing Projects
Working with lovely eyelet border pieces in a garment project can be daunting. Luckily, Sarai at Colette shared her experience working through placement, seaming, and backing of this delicate textile in a recent dress project. I love when people share their troubleshooting process. It makes the tutorial that much more meaningful! More: Beautiful Dyed Eyelet […]
Visible Physible Family Trees
Last September, I wrote about the Thingiverse “Cube Gears” phenomenon, briefly tracing the origin of user emmett’s Screwless Cube Gears through its evolution from Haruki Nakamura’s papercraft geared heart sculpture via user GregFrost’s printable Broken Heart thing. At the time, I really wanted to exhaust the graph of the cube gears / heart gears phenomenon, but didn’t have the available free time. Well, I finally got around to doing it.
How-To: Wooden Multi-Roll Tape Dispenser
Looking for a great last-minute Father’s Day gift idea? Make an awesome wooden multi-roll tape dispenser for your favorite duct tape master with this handy tutorial from American Woodworker! And, because I know you’re all thinking it, you should probably go ahead and grab enough supplies to make an even longer version to organize that […]
SMS Text Scroller Powered by Android and Arduino
follower posted a new project up on Labradoc: an LED matrix display connected to an Arduino Mega ADK and an Android phone: I was working to get things working for the evening of Sat 19th (NZ time) but noticed an issue during the afternoon that stopped much in the way of new feature development. Once […]
3D-Printable Armor Scales
Thingiverse user Krest created STLs for five slightly different scales, which can be printed up and linked together to create awesome scale armor for cosplay or pure nerdiness. [via MakerBot]