How-To: Install a ball valve on a cooler
If you’re thinking of building your own wort chiller for homebrewing, you might benefit from seeing how Instructables user iPodGuy installs a ball valve on a cooler.
Year: 2009
First Microchip Technology Halloween promo giveaway
The sponsors of this year’s Halloween contest will be providing us with a number of promotional freebies to give away throughout October. First up for grabs is a PIC32 Starter Kit, shown above, with a retail value of $50. Here’s the product detail page. To enter, leave a comment describing what cool project you’d make with it. The winner will be announced next Friday, October 9.
Intern’s Corner: Cocktail Hats, Anyone?
Every other week, CRAFT’s awesome interns tell about the projects they’re building in the Craft: Labs, the trouble they’ve gotten into, and what they’ll make next. By Lindsey North, projects intern So your best friend calls — you’re to attend a fancy dress party, costumes mandatory. But you have nothing to wear! However, you see […]
Knitting Pattern: Stash Socks
Too often we’re left with mountains of little balls of sock yarn. Here’s a nice and easy way to use up those leftovers bits. You can use one of two methods: 1. If you have two colors you want to use up, use one color for the cuff, heel flap, and toe. 2. If you […]
Crochet Jägermeister
Kristin Rask, who runs the Plush You! show recently did an interview with Yummy Pancake, who made (among other things) this crochet Jägermeister bottle. Happy Friday!
Worlds deepest trashcan
This deep trashcan appears to be an ad for Volkswagen, however I really like idea of giving regular objects impossible properties.
An older human ancestor than Lucy
Yesterday was a big day for anthropology, seeing the first publication of some 15 years worth of analysis of a 4.4 million-year-old fossil skeleton of Ardipithecus Ramidus first discovered by Gen Suwa, then a graduate student of Berkeley paleoanthropologist Tim White, in Ethiopia, in 1992. Science magazine has made all eleven papers freely available to […]