Month: March 2011

Mint-Tin FM Transmitter

Mint-Tin FM Transmitter

Chris’s transmitter uses only 17 parts and has a range of 100 feet indoors. The goal of this project is for me personally to learn a little more about fm transmitters and fm bug making (may the HAM radio gods bless me in this pursuit). The ideal outcome of this project is a very small […]

Make: Projects – Doortop Stash

Make: Projects – Doortop Stash

What does the top edge of say, your utility closet door look like? I’m betting that you’ve probably never seen it, even if you’ve lived in your home for awhile. And although there’s not a lot of room to hide stuff in there, well, if you’re like me, the stuff you want to hide is usually on the smaller side. Not many people think of the space inside the door as a hiding spot, but it’s right there in easy reaching distance when you need to get to it. And it’s devious enough that, yes, I think this trick will still be effective even after we blog it all over the tubes.

Irish Colcannon Recipe

Trees for the Forest has a really nice, simple recipe for the Irish dish colcannon. It’s mashed potatoes and kale, mixed together. Yum! I found out about it because they eat it in the film “In America,” which is the story of an Irish immigrant family living in New York City.