Shollen writes – “I’ve recently been faced with a large, empty apartment, a budget, and about a week to make it feel like a home. Furnishing via Craig’s List had always been my plan, but with two living rooms? Oh, also, by the way, we can’t fit anything larger than the smallest loveseat up our […]
As featured later on Mythbusters (and mentioned on the Make blog awhile back), Wildwood Survival shows how to make a fire without tools, using just a can of coke, a chocolate bar, and some tinder. A follow-up post provides some alternative methods for “people who would like to make a solar reflector from the bottom […]
Blissfully bitter writes – “If you’re feeling nostalgic for grade school, when you had to give Valentines to everyone in your class, WHiRR has some elementary-friendly mini cards available to download, print, and distribute. Hand them out to friends, lovers, and strangers on the street. Print them as they are or get DIY and embellish […]
Looking for more “recycled street signs as building material” ideas? Dan_b writes – “For more recycled street-sign made stuff, check out this building in Berkeley, CA which has fences and other parts made of street signs (and features lots of other recycled stuff like a gate made of Volvo wagon hatchbacks and awnings made of […]
In the Hacks Instructables pool, tracydanger provides a great life hack for downsizing your wallet: I got sick and tired of having a dozen little “bonus” cards to carry around, so I made this simple fix. Basically, I just scanned in all my barcodes, fit them nicely into a row in photoshop and then printed […]
Sat. Jan.27, 2007 6-10pm, Seattle. Mike Leavitt will be sculpting one of his “one-off” action figures from scratch to close his artist action figure show, “The Art Army Guerilla Crew” at BLVD Gallery (2316 2nd Ave. Seattle 98126) – Link & show.
Stupidfaceboy writes – “While the recently posted link to premade flatpack toy PDF’s is cool, Computer Arts magazine released a tutorial in an issue last year describing how to make your own. It covers the process of designing, drawing, printing, and building your own flatpack toy from scratch. “ – Link. Related: Readymech papercraft monsters […]
