Thinking of giving a subscription to MAKE this holiday season? We’ve made some print-at-home cards suitable for giving and mailing. Consider dressing up your card a bit with some LEDs! I used conductive thread and a watch battery to power the holiday lights on the front of our “Tinker, Tinker, Little Star” card. See how […]
Emily L. Eibel is an illustrator living in Brooklyn, New York who, in addition to some amazing drawings, does gorgeous embroidered illustrations. Some are serene and simple and others have a darker tone. Well worth checking out. Via Design for Mankind.
Last week, Mister Jalopy started out to write another one of is fine entries on D+R about “shackitecture” and ended up penning a proposal for an “Urban Homesteading Act,” a new generation of homesteading laws. As discussed on D+R previously, the local zoning and building departments represent an impregnable, byzantine bureaucracy so difficult to navigate […]
A lot of what I love about the holidays is the vintage imagery that seems to abound. Here are some of my favorite vintage-inspired gift ideas. Everyone could use a spare notebook, and the recycled book journals by Tyler Bender Book Co. are among the loveliest I’ve seen. If you need a last-minute gift for […]
Time has a cool slideshow and interesting article about vertical farming. See the article for a focus on the now, like this experiment in El Paso: And more futurism in the slideshow. My favorite: Even if they’re not always the most efficient, you’ve gotta love those Savonius turbines on top… Please share in the comments […]
Resurrection Fern has posted some beautiful photos and tips on reproducing her latest nature-inspired creation: ice-dipped doilies.
I just published my Instructable on getting my Arduino to take care of my plants. Specifically, Garduino waters the plants when their soil resistance level drops too low and turns on supplemental lighting to make total light daily equal 16 hours regardless of outside conditions. It’s not pretty, but it works! Other than de-uglification, let […]
