Leevonk has an Instructable on making your own fablab of sorts – A good way to make 3D plastic models easily.. You’ll need: an EGX-300 engraver machine (we will use it for milling). I saw it on ebay for $2000 at some point. If you buy from Roland, costs $5000 unless you’re using it for […]
All things sparkly are in lately, but you’ve gotta go back to the classics like good o’ glitter. Artist Claire Joyce creates amazing work of art with simple craft items like color glitter and Elmer’s glue. From Garth of Extreme Craft, “[Claire] figured out how to make paintings with it, laying down flat areas of […]
Rebecca Hinden is obsessed with the red eyes that you see in photograph. For her latest project she’s made up red eye goggles that let you see red eye without having to take anyones picture and develop the photograph. Blaed Spence stepped in for the interview. Watch the video to learn more about how the […]
Ryan and his fellow students built a 15 foot tall (30 foot extended) trebuchet, it fires water balloons and other similar projectiles. [via] – Link.
Kim writes – “I have to admit, I am tired of using Photoshop to create a pseudo Holga shot using javascripts found in flickr.com so I decided to just go ahead and hack my Holga CFN and give it a second life since all it has been doing is gathering dust. My plan–to hack the […]
If making Tamiflu is a little too intense for you, David, a professor of biology and chemistry at U.C. Clermont college has a yogurt making how-to using commercial yogurt as a starter and a cooler as an incubator – “Yogurt is a fermented milk product which originated in Turkey in which a mixed culture of […]
The BBC has an article about a better way to make Tamiflu, the ant-viral drug a lot of the world might need if/when we have a pandemic flu. The new approach uses the plant star anise, grown in the mountains in China – “A Nobel laureate has devised a new way to make the anti-flu […]
