Ruffle Vest Tutorial
Morgan on ThreadBanger reinterprets the new spring 08 look of ruffles and shows you how to create your own ruffle vest! Link.
Month: February 2008
Time lapse video: making a tire playground
Jackson from The Steel Yard wrote in with this time-lapse video of the construction of a tire playground in Providence, RI: The Steel Yard joined Struever Bros. Eccles & Rouse, City of Providence Parks Department, Woonasquatucket River Watershed Council and other community partners on September 29th, 2007 to help construct a playground at Riverside Park […]
Peeking inside some LEDs
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories gets up close to some LEDs, and takes a peek beyond the light: I took some close-up pictures of LEDs to get a look at what’s inside. These are just standard T-1 3/4 (5 mm) package superbright LEDs with clear lenses, one of the most common types, and I took the […]
Make Your Own Fingerpaint
Make your own fingerpaint with this homemade recipe featured in The Austrialian Women’s Weekly. [ via ] Link.
Solar charging, electric lawn mower
The solar charging system makes this DIY electric mower different from the rest. You will never have to put those gas cans in your car again, and the maintenance is a whole lot less too! There aren’t a lot of eco-friendly mowers out there, never mind this one was made out of a lot of […]
Knitted electromagnetic shields
Becky @ CRAFT spotted a nice design noir project, she writes – From the technophobic department, Zoe Papadopoulou at the Royal Academy of Art is making these shields for anything electric, knitting a copper filament in her cozies and electrically grounding it. This provides some shielding from the electromagnetic fields these devices emit. Truth is, […]
Grindstone attached to bicycle
Clever way to sharpen knives, Science And Mechanics 1936 – Link. Related: Knife sharpening tricks (video) – Link.