Spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool: If you’ve ever bricked the BIOS on your PC, then you might appreciate the Openbiosprog-spi project by Uwe Hermann. It is designed to be able to reprogram any flash memory that uses the serial peripheral interconnect bus (SPI), which could come in handy if you need to restore a […]
Trying to attract some feathered friends? Try making your own bird seed feeders: You can save money by creating your own hanging treats, instead of purchasing preformed bells or biscuits. Conversely, you can spend a ton of money spoiling your wild animal friends. You can attract a lot of wild bird company by hanging out […]
AFOL Guy Himber, whose innovative use of Lego elements has appeared in Make: Online twice before (links below), has done it again with this excellent, life-sized steampunk ray gun. If you like this, be sure to check out his similarly-themed Infinity Rifle. Lovely work as usual. More: Bionicle griffin makes fantastic use of biopunk parts […]
I found these two bikes in the MAKE Flickr pool: The top photo shows a folding bike with an “electric push trailer” — a $75 e-bike conversion kit turned into an electrically-powered trailer. Neat idea! The bottom photo shows a standard mountain bike that some maniac has hacked to run via gas engine. What have […]
CasaSugar has an exclusive two-part interview with HGTV Design Star winner Emily Henderson. I like these crafty design tips from Emily here: Anything can be a vase if it can hold water. I use jars, teacups, anything that’s watertight, for plants and flowers. When you’re shopping in thrift stores and flea markets that’s something to […]
Constrained Ball… People not only write with pen. Other than writing, often we draw lines with pen. Most time people use ruler to draw a straight line or free hand which results winding line. This invention is regarding a method to draw straight line without using ruler. Normally, ball point pen freely rolls in accordance […]
Announcing another Handmade Music, this Sunday 8/29! HANDMADE MUSIC Culturefix, 9 Clinton St., New York, NY 10002 Sunday, August 29 Open Party Event 7-9:30p FREE Handmade Music is a community get-together, Science Fair, noise-making happening, and party for people making things that make music. We return to NYC on Sunday, August 29 at 7p. Our […]
