Cheap hydration system
Here’s a cheap ($7) and easy hydration system for recumbent bicycles – Link.
Month: May 2006
Veggie oil / grease powered toy Jeep
Daniel writes – “Children, you musn’t play with fire. This is serious business. HEY! Wipe that smirk off your face, this is for real. What we have here is a truly vegetable oil powered vehicle. Not new oil of course, it’s premium quality used, rancid, and nasty canola oil. Otherwise known as VWO, or waste […]
Recycled Banner Golden Mean Messenger Bags
Bici Blog says,”An interesting story about making messenger bags out of discarded materials. It includes the development of the patterns based on the golden ratio. Patterns are distributed through a cc licence by one of the Los Angeles Bike community kids.” Link.
HOW TO – Make a money bouquet
Nothing says “Thanks Mom” for Mother’s day like a bouquet of cash money, here’s a neat paper-craft project that show you how – (Spanish). Thanks Laceci – Link. The site also has a good how to on recycling plastic-bags for making useful accessories.
Miniatures tips & tricks
Rotwang writes – “I’m not into miniatures myself but this site has neat how-to’s on creating some interesting things and I can see how the techniques could be applied to some other artsy things.” – Link.
Handbook of hardware pinouts, cables schemes and connectors layouts
Silas writes – “Handbook of hardware pinouts, cables schemes and connectors layouts. This collection is ideal for the maker! You will have a hard time NOT finding what you need!” – Link.
Home bar project
Bhammond writes – “I used SketchUp last December to design a home-bar from scratch. I ended up designing the different sized pieces of lumber that I needed and pieced it all together…” – Link. Related: Hammock made with Sketchup… Link. Workbench plans – made with Sketchup – Link. SketchUp -> Google SketchUp now free… Link.