HOW TO – Make a “Chicken Moat”
Lower the drawbridge! Build your own chicken moat. Surround your veggie garden with a moat full of hungry chickens ready to eat bad bugs and protect your garden [via] Link.
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Encrypt your text files…
I store most of my important stuff in a series of text files, always have, and likely always will – on my Windows machine I’ve been trying this out – “Steganos LockNote will change the way you work with confidential notes. Application and document in one: the mechanism to encrypt and decrypt a note is […]
Avimator – Make your own animations for the virtual world!
If you hang out in the user created virtual world Second Life one of the popular things to do is use animations for dancing, interaction, avatar personality and using for filming (also called Machinima) – animations are usually created with Poser, but now there’s a new free way to create the animation files (.BVH) . […]
Embedded conductive, magnetic paint driven LEDs
Q-Branch posted up another great Instructable – “…An electro-graf is a graffiti piece or throw-up that uses conductive and magnetic paint to embed LED display electronics. The following pages describe the materials and processes used to create the prototype indoor and outdoor interactive electro-grafs created in the lab at Eyebeam.” Link.
HOW TO – Make charcoal
Chris writes – “There are a couple of versions of how to make charcoal here. The main focus is on drawing charcoal, but barbecue fuel is the focus of at least one of the projects.” Link.
Bookcase made from a ladder
This is a great idea, take an old ladder and make it a bookcase. I’ve seen a lot of weird and funky ladders at garage sales, so this might be a good way to shelve some of the books that are piling up. [via DIYHappy with a suggestion on storing MAKEs!] Link.
Spiderman case mod & engraving…
Micke Gustafsson’s amazing case mod for his son – “My son loves Spiderman so naturally when I asked him how he wanted his new case themed, he didn’t even blink. Spiderman it is then. Thankfully, Spiderman has been around in various forms for over 40 years, including comic books, TV shows and several highly successful […]
