Anna at Cookie Madness shares her recipe for making dark chocolate Toblerone cookies. Anna writes: Toblerone is not for everybody, but I like it lot. Maybe because I’m part Swiss. The milk chocolate Toberlone bars are kind of sweet, but the dark chocolate ones worked perfectly and gave the cookies that little bit of chew […]
Instructables user BrianH replaced the nickel-cadmium (NiCd) factory cells in his cordless drill with nickel-metal-hydride (NiMH) cells. He reports much longer useful lifetime for the drill between charges after the upgrade.
Marple200 writes– I’ve wanted to build a custom bicycle for many years. I started wondering how fat of a tire I could accommodate on a bicycle. I had seen pictures of the Hanebrink Technologies extreme terrain bicycle, but wanted something still more extreme. The problem I considered was one of drive train alignment. With the […]
During Maker Faire Bay Area back in May, we had the pleasure of having the Craftzine area situated right across from the ILoveToCreate booth, where Crafty Chica, Kathy Cano-Murillo spent the weekend demoing glitter-filled crafts. It wasn’t unusual to visit her booth and come back trailing glitter on our shoes or clothes, but we were […]
“Atmos” is a type of mechanical clock, manufactured since 1935 by Jaeger-LeCoultre in Switzerland. The Atmos needs no batteries, no electric power, and never needs to be wound. All it requires to run indefinitely is an ambient temperature change of at least 1 degree Celsius in the range between 15 and 30 C. The clock stores mechanical energy from the thermal expansion and contraction of an hermetically sealed capsule containing a mixture of gaseous and liquid compounds formulated to provide maximum volumetric changes with temperature. The mechanism is illustrated here. Atmos clocks are laboriously handmade and very expensive, and are commonly gifted by the Swiss government upon visiting heads of state.
A bicycle-mounted ice cream maker: This would be a fun way to make a snack for your next picnic or party. I’m always forgetting to make something to bring to a friends house, and would love to be able to just load this up and head out!
Etsy put up a nice guidelines post about framing artwork for the longest possible life and health of the work including paintings, photographs, prints, etc. The above photo was framed without a mat to separate it from the glass.
