This week’s Crochet Boho Belt is designed by Robyn Chachula of Crochet by Faye. It’s a fun quick crochet project that’s in tune with the latest style for spring. Robyn says, “The stitch pattern below is an edging that has been around for over a hundred years, but in this setting you take all the […]
Some fun experiments to extend your knowledge with your home laboratory, from Popular Science 1933 – Simple Experiments and Home-made Apparatus Extend Your Knowledge and Speed the Work You Can Accomplish in Your Own Laboratory It is surprising what the amateur chemist can do with a fifteen-cent bottle of ordinary household ammonia. Being a mixture […]
Derek visited MAKE fest with a pole-mounted camera that captured video of the event and he processed it to create a time-lapse video in real-time at the event and here as an archive – The Mobile Camera Tower at the Make Magazine event at etech2007. People seemed to admire our duct tape design strategies and […]
Studio DaphNat at Scrpbook-Trends has an interesting technique for creating some beautiful looking paper by going to your kitchen and using the handy clingwrap! Link.
This looks like a great paper kit, it taps its fingers as you turn the crank! Pure distilled impatience, turn the handle and listen to the tappety-tap of impatient finger rapping! Now pre-cut and pre-creased! Simply pop out the pieces and glue together. Complete step-by-step ifully illustrated instructions are provided. IMPATIENCE PAPER ANIMATION KIT – […]
Bonnie writes: With R2-D2 mailboxes popping up across America, thanks to the U.S Postal Service and Lucasfilm, fans can celebrate 30 years of Star Wars and mail letters at the same time. But if you can’t find a R2-D2 mailbox near you, make this cool papercraft 3-D model of the mailbox for your action figures! […]
Check out Jean-Louis Naudin’s DIY UFO – a coanda effect flying saucer you can make yourself! The GFS-UAV, propelled by an electric engine, uses the Coanda effect to take off vertically, fly, hover and land vertically ( VTOL ). There is no big rotor like on an helicopter and the flight is very stable and […]
