Hanging Bottle Vase
This hanging air plant pendant over on Poppytalk is a lovely little DIY moment that can be added to any room in your home. Contributed by Caitlin of The Merrythought.
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Explore the Airwaves with Weekend Projects
Build a completely batteryless AM radio receiver, and explore the airwaves with Weekend Projects. This radio only requires a few hours to assemble, and you’ll be able to tune in to transmissions within a range of around 25 miles.
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Cut Your Own Wooden Six Pack Holder
Don’t risk breaking any bottles next time you carry beer to a party. Now you can make your own 6 Packer, a laser cuttable six pack carrier designed by Thingiverse user timogiles. Since it’s designed in OpenSCAD, an open source parametric 3D modeling program, you can easily change the material thickness, bottle diameter, fastener size, and hand grip size and cut a 6 Packer to your own specifications.
Continue ReadingHow-To: Wine Bottle Cathode Ray Tube
For those of you with an overwhelming desire to build your own subatomic particle accelerator, look no further than this Instructable by Xellers, which shows you how to convert a wine bottle into a cathode ray tube (CRT). Of course, that’s not all you need: other ingredients include a two-stage vacuum pump, a neon sign […]
Continue ReadingHow-To: Toddler Exploration Bottles
By Vanessa Coppolla One of my toddler’s favorite things to do is rummage through our recyclables bin, which I seriously need to find a better way to child-proof. I’m not sure why I spend money on toys for Logan when he prefers to play with the cardboard box that the toys arrived in. Give him […]
Continue ReadingHow-To: Bottle Cutting
With a bottle cutting jig, you can easily recycle your used glass bottles into reusable drinking glasses or flower vases. After scoring the glass with the jig, there are a few different ways to make a clean break. In this video, I show how to do this using a candle flame and a piece of […]
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Guitar slide from glass bottle
One interesting historical example of upcycled crafting is the bottleneck guitar- or as it is now widely known, slide guitar.
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