From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Flickr member callum_robey keeps his ears warm, well-fed, and stylishly dressed – I made these for snowboarding a few years ago and recently found them while tidying. I chopped a pair of headphones into the ear pieces of these pink fuzzy earmuffs and shortened the headphone cable. An iPod […]
Crafty Chica Kathy Cano-Murillo shows us how to hand-stitch these funny and yummy-looking empanada pincushions, which her kids found convincing enough to try and take a bite from!
In response to our high power rocket post, Ken Denmead of GeekDad points us to coverage on their blog of the Rocket Mavericks event, with some awesome pics. The first one above is a time-lapsed night photo. The author of the piece, Steve Jurvetson, writes: …the motor failed, and broke the rocket in two, but […]
Flickr user Crafty Intentions spent five months sewing this intricate, floor-length rainbow skirt, which features 10 tiers of 4″ x 4″ patchwork squares. It’s like Scarlett O’Hara meets Willy Wonka–in the best possible way, of course!
Erik Charlton has some nice pics on Flickr of his NAR Level 3 Certification flight at the recent Rocket Mavericks event. The rocket he flew is a 10″ Polecat Bullpup which is 80 lbs and 110″ tall. It flew to 4,500 feet on an Aerotech M1419 motor with twin G Wiz LCX flight computers. Liftoff
Curious about exploring the glitchy goodness of the now-classic Speak & Spell learning toy but not quite ready to crack it open and get to the soldering? Perhaps the above how-to will be enough to whet your appetite. [via Matrixsynth]
Apparently ChapStick is the new Altoids. I really like this little LED flashlight that “BCat” stuffed into a ChapStick container. It uses an A23 (12V) battery that fits nicely inside. Why a 12V battery? “BCat” was able to buy 2 for $2 as opposed to the more expensive coin cells. Make you own ChapStick LED […]
