This sweet Tetris heart cross-stitch is a great way to express a little geek love. You can find the original chart, created by Sprite Stitch user DWgrrl, over on Sprite Stitch. [via Penelope Teapot] More: Needlepoint Tetris Fridge Magnets The Creation Process of Tetris-Inspired Fabric Tetris Baby Blanket Tetris Quilt Tetris Tote Bag Home is […]
And we’re back with our fourteenth installment of Your Comments. Here are our favorites from the past week, from Make: Online, our Facebook page, and Twitter. Todd Harrison shared an, er, alternative to Kip Kay’s Lily Pad Pool Warmers Weekend Project video: My DIY redneck pool heater would be a lot less fuss. There was […]
Sometimes you have a real need to mount your tablet computer to a wall or other vertical surface. That’s where common sense and good old fashioned ingenuity comes in. Seattle area foodie and avid DIY’er, Tumbleweed, shows us that you needn’t spend exorbitant amounts of money on some specialized billet aluminum wall mounting kit. A $2.84 “Delux Plate Hanger Set” will do the trick.
I love PVC pipe: It’s weatherproof, cheap, commonly available, easy to work, and easy to join temporarily or permanently. Apart from a slightly icky environmental footprint, the only serious drawback of PVC pipe is that it’s ugly, owing largely to the fact that it’s usually available only in white, off-white, gray, or (sometimes) black. PVC can be painted, sure, but getting a good finish requires careful surface preparation, and even then the paint tends to flake or wear off with time, weather, and/or handling.
But, as you’ll know if you’ve ever tried to remove a purple primer stain, it is possible to indelibly colorize PVC pipe. I got curious about what was in purple primer, and a bit of digging revealed that it’s just clear primer plus purple dye. I reasoned, then, that I ought to be able to make my own “purple primer” in whatever color I wanted by adding solvent dye to clear primer. Long story short: It works, and it works great. You can read all about it here.
Ever since it debuted I’ve wondered what made the PS3 Move controller tick. The folks over at iFixit have satisfied my curiosity with their latest teardown.
Sascha Grant, of I Build Rockets (Melbourne, Australia), uploaded these laser-cut rocketry stands to Thingiverse. They’re for displaying his model rocketry collection. They were cut from 3mm acrylic. He did some in clear too, which makes more sense to me. 13 & 18mm Rocket Stand
Don’t forget, we’re closing in on our Technojunk Teardown contest. If you’re participating, do send in your entries ASAP. If you haven’t whipped out the drivers and gotten busy on a cast-off piece of technojunk yet, there’s still time! Deadline is 11:59 p.m. PDT on September 24, 2010. There are some great prizes at stake […]
