HOW TO – Grow Shiitake Mushrooms
Heavy Petal has a great tutorial showing how to drill an alder log and fill it with mushroom spawn-laced wooden plugs to create a super-cool log that will eventually sprout shiitake mushrooms galore.
Month: May 2008
DIY Box Handles
MAKE Section Editor Charles Platt has a series of great moving tips in Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools: Make handles from half-inch plastic water pipe sawn into 5″ lengths. My local Lowe’s sold me six feet of pipe for around $3 and you can use any wood saw to cut it. You may feel this is […]
Advice to Sink in Slowly Postcards
University College Falmouth art graduates create posters containing advice to incoming students. These gorgeous posters are now available as a postcard pack! Check out all the posters featured in the pack at this Flickr set. Related: Advice to Sink in Slowly Posters
ITP Show: Autonomous Parapoetic Device
I got a chance to talk with Adam Parrish at the ITP show about his project called the “Autonomous Parapoetic Device”. I have to thank him for tearing it completely apart so I could see the “guts” of the piece. Here is how Adam describes his work: The Autonomous Parapoetic Device is a self-contained and […]
Bikes @ MAKE
Gas prices got you down? Sources don’t need to tell us that fixing and riding bikes is the way to go. Here at MAKE we love riding, fixing, improving, and modding our bikes, so we thought we’d share all things Bike @ MAKE. New to bicycle commuting? Take some advice for city riding. Safety first! […]
Kokoleo’s Spool Shirts
KB from A Patchwork World recently posted about these fun appliquéd teeshirts she made featuring a spool motif, complete with hanging threads. Here’s hoping she’ll add a few of these to her online shop, Kokoleo.
Butterfly GPS shows you the way
This “Butterfly GPS” device was built with an ATmega169 microcontroller, a GPS receiver board based on the SiRF chipset, and an LCD screen that reads out the data in real-time as location, date and time. Very simple construction and nice details on how it was built at the PDF link below. A Butterfly GPS (PDF), […]