Decorative Jam Topper Tutorial
Amy of Lucykate Crafts has a tutorial on how to make a really eas decorative topper for homemade jam made from felt. A great way to give a gift of yummy jam!
Month: July 2008
Commodore 64 LAN party
Hah! This is awesome, Slashdot has a quick blurb on the the first Commodore 64 LAN party! The world’s first Commodore 64 LAN party was held at the Cincinnati Commodore Computer Club 2008 Expo last weekend, where the new multiplayer C64 game NetRacer was unveiled. The setup consists of up to eight Commodore 64s with […]
MAKE Flickr Pool weekly roundup
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Twitter Fail Whale [above, top-left] Wind-powered string plucker Hydrophone eyeball? [above, top-right] Soldering floss [above, bottom-right] Cigarette tin “boom” box[above, bottom-left] PVC sprinkler = summertime fun
Papercraft fauna
Papercraft Paradise has links to a couple really neat paper models. Konicaminolta has a wonderful fiddler crab model. There are 2 PDFs – one has the parts, the other has instructions. And Kirin has a cute polar bear papercraft with a wobbly head; also has 2 pdfs. (you have to click through a couple times […]
Plastination
Here’s another beautiful photo essay by Marc Steinmetz – plastination by Gunther von Hagen. It’s fascinating and somewhat disturbing – don’t click through if you’re squeamish. Here’s a short explanation of the process.
Up periscope
Gunk on Floor (where do people get these names??) put together a great Instructable on making a spy periscope – it’s a classic kid’s project.
HOW TO – Turn broken speakers into a snappy media cabinet
This is a good idea for those giant speakers when they (eventually) break beyond repair, or found in the trash — turn them in to a nice media cabinet!