These ice cream pops by Sarah James look like a great summer party snack. She uses homemade magic shell to make a protective anti-drip coating. More: Recipe: Chocolate Banana Pops How-To: Clone Trooper Candy Pops Pie Pops How-To: Smoothie Pops
When I was a little girl, I worshiped Yoda. According to my parents, I preferred to marry Luke Skywalker, but I used to talk in a Yoda voice all the time. As you can imagine, loving this Yoda head cake I am! It’s a slideshow on Instructables rather than a full tutorial, but there are […]
Interesting concept from Peter over at the RepRap: Builders blog, who has successfully made some cuts in a CD case using an experimental 1W laser cutter with a Z-axis control that allows the laser diode itself to reciprocate up and down, kinda like a saber saw. This action moves the beam’s focus, where it cuts most effectively, up and down through the material at each point along the cutting path. I have wondered about dynamically-variable-focal-length CNC lasers before, and although I’m probably in over my head, here, it seems like there should be some way to do it optically without having to physically move the whole laser head up and down. Everyone’s a critic! Nice work here, Peter. [via Hack a Day]
Remember the insanely easy scarf I posted on Tuesday? Erin from LuckyByDesign has already stitched up a couple, and posted them on her great blog! She went with a totally different fabric than the jersey that I used, and they turned out really well. I love that one simple technique can produce such versatile looks.
Lex Augusteijn‘s high speed photographs are taken at the (relatively) glacially slow shutter speed of 1/10th of a second. By rights the bullet shouldn’t even be in the frame. He controls the camera, flash, and gun with a laptop, giving him great results with a relatively slow speed setup. Lex described the process on Digital […]
By Katie Goodman I prefer to cook bacon in the oven vs. on the stove top in a skillet or frying pan. Cooking stove-top always ends up covering my stove in grease spatters (and sometimes the spatters hit my hands – that doesn’t exactly feel good!). I also think it’s tedious and slow. It makes […]
In the Make: Online Toolbox, we focus mainly on tools that fly under the radar of more conventional tool coverage: in-depth tool-making projects, strange, or specialty tools unique to a trade or craft that can be useful elsewhere, tools and techniques you may not know about, but once you do, and incorporate them into your […]
