How-To: $3.50 mini TV-B-Gone
Instructables user Dark Sponge made a teeny breadboardless TV-B-Gone clone for $3.50 in parts.
Month: August 2010
Cherpumple – Pies Baked Inside Cakes!
Marie at Make and Takes points us to this video from Charles Phoenix for a most epic dessert: the Cherpumple. It’s a three layer cake with an entire pie baked in to every layer. It’s a sight to behold, and the video is a lot of fun to watch.
DIY repeating crossbow
The Chu-Ko-Nu is a 2,400-year-old Chinese repeating crossbow featuring a 10-shot magazine. It was a marvel of mechanical design that was still in use up until the era of gunpowder weapons. Make: Online reader Bjørn sent in a link to maker Leong Kit Meng’s recreation of the Cho-Ko-Nu. The photos are nice, but the instructions […]
How-To: Camping Style Crescent Rolls
Instructables user buckminsterfullerene writes: I recently went camping at North/South Lake in the Catskill Mts. in NY with my great friend Paul, or as you may know him, AtomicTurkey27. Making Crescent Rolls while camping has always been a tradition for me and my family, so when Paul came camping with us we decided to share […]
Dug North launches online automata plans index
Respected automata builder, blogger, and long-time MAKE pal Dug North has started collating plans for whirligigs, mechanical toys, and other automata in a single page.
How-To: Clone Trooper Candy Pops
My son is crazy excited for the premiere of Season 3 of Clone Wars, coming up in just a month. These Clone Trooper candy pops from Dot at Dabbled would be a great treat to make for a home premiere party! Related: How-To: Clone Trooper Cupcakes
Needle-felted explosives
There’s something about plush renderings of objects that would otherwise be terrifying that really appeals to me.