How-To: Grow Oyster Mushrooms
Instructables user uniqueutopia writes: We have been introducing mushroom cultivation as a nutritional supplement and cash crop for Afghanistan’s landless poor
Month: February 2011
How-To: Oil Cloth Pencil Case
If you’re looking for a small oil cloth project to either use up some scraps or try your hand at sewing with oil cloth, check out this tutorial for making a pencil case from Liz at Momtastic. Bonus: you’ll also get practice putting in a zipper! [via Oilcloth Addict]
In the Maker Shed: 6-in-1 Solar Robotic kit
The 6-in-1 Educational Solar Robotic Kit is an excellent beginner building kit designed to teach how solar power is used to drive a small motor. Kids use the 21 snap-together parts (no tools required) to build 6 different working models including an airboat, car, windmill, puppy, and 2 different airplanes. Solar building kits teach children […]
Interactive Mirror
Alpay Kasal, who helped create Alpha One Labs‘ Twitter-searching Christmas tree, has a new project: a touchscreen mirror. thought to build this version of the Interactive Mirror after I saw some dielectric glass mirrors with LCD panels built into them. They’re meant to be the bathroom of the future, complete with news and weather to […]
No-Nonsense Beginner Hydroponics
Sean @ Make: Online writes: Our pal Jared Bouck, whose light sculpture project appeared in MAKE Volume 24, has just posted a trifecta of simple, low-cost hydroponics tutorials for beginners like me.
Magda Sayeg And Guerilla Suit’s Willie Nelson Yarn Bomb
Guerilla Suit and Knitta Please present: #Williebomb from Guerilla Suit on Vimeo. Over the weekend, Magda Sayeg (Knitta Please) and Guerilla Suit teamed up and tagged the W hotel in Austin in celebration of Willie Nelson’s inagural performance at the new Austin City Limits venue. Willie’s iconic braids and bandana were re-created in yarn to […]
BeeSim Game Using LilyPad and XBee
To teach children about complexity theory, a group from Indiana University created an electronic game called BeeSim using LilyPad Arduinos and XBee radios: During the game children wear a Bee puppet wrist band with embedded electronics to allow for game play. The children have a finite amount of time (45 seconds) to collect and deposit […]