Soy wallets
Soy wallets has (you guessed it) wallets from soy milk containers, they’re for sale – but the instructions are at the bottom of the page… Link.
Month: July 2007
Heathkit schematic diagram archive
Goodness, this is one of the best sites ever – a very large archive of Heathkit schematics… Link.
Flat screen TV quilt
TVs are getting so big that they need quilts made for them when they get cold… actually, it’s an entry in the Sew Useful contest, a TV cover to keep the dust off… Here’s how to make your own – Link.
I am not a bomb – talking solar lamps tell you they’re not bombs
R. Stern writes – Inspired by the January Boston ATHF bomb scare, Rees Shad and I have created some publicly-installed solar lamps that proclaim, “I am not a bomb” in one of 12 languages. They are on view in the Kingston, NY Peace Park through October as part of their sculpture biennial. These Declarative Lamps […]
Scrap built Dxmaxion
Bishopthirteen writes – I’ve always loved building vehicles from found bits. I grew up at the top of a steep hill so engines were never a consideration until I moved to West Oakland (think a paved dry lake bed with stop signs). This is my first homebuilt “car” not based on a bicycle drive system. […]
Grow crystals in a cup
From Pop Sci, Theodore Gray on making bizmuth crystals – When I was a teenager melting elements in my parents’ basement, I noticed that cooling lead would sometimes form a snowflake-like pattern on its surface. Snowflakes are crystals, and I had never thought of metal as crystalline. Metals are shiny, malleable things. You can’t bend […]
Say hi to Gareth
Everyone please welcome Gareth Branwyn to the MAKE blog, you may know him from many of his fantastic articles in MAKE (print) – and now he’s here on the MAKE blog too! Pictured here, Gareth on the left, I’m in the center, Bre is on the right. Gareth came out swinging, check out his posts! […]