This month’s Handmade Music event is shaping up to be a truly awesome hands-on showcase of sound maker bliss. Check out what’ll be on hand – Bizarre sonic objects made from dismembered mannequin torsos and legs, transformed into a Theremin and maracas Mouse & the Billionaire’s Gestural controllers, made with wood and 3D printers, shaping […]
How is your holiday hacking going? If you have been good, Santa has stocked you up with lots of clever goodies to keep you and yours entertained. Below are a few things that I found in my stocking and am looking forward to fussing with: Disposable battery/charger for cellphones. At two dollars (frugal Santa), if […]
My favorite: half-eaten gingerman ornament Our friends at Treehugger have a few solutions to unreciprocated gift-giving. Why not make some in case you get a present from somebody you didn’t expect?:)
The Plasticfanpiper lives up to his name demonstrating a homemade ‘membrane pipe’ apparently built from straws balloons, and plastic valves – must be a pretty sturdy build to stand up to the air pressure. [Thanks, Stephen!] A quick search for “membrane bagpipe” turned up this interesting how to – The results produce a tone somewhat […]
When I glanced up from shoveling the driveway it looked like some kind of cool pattern. Maybe I did it on purpose, maybe it just happened that way. A quick photo from my pocket camera and then it was time to make it really go away. Most of the continental US seems to be in […]
Looking for just the right salad fixings and wrapping paper at the same time? How about celery stamped gift wrap? If you plan it right, you can have your vegetables do double duty. While you are at it, you might want to check out the rest of the referring site, a source of lots of […]
Lifehacker has figured out which DIY projects people viewed most on their site over the last year. Here’s video of my favorite: And here’s the full top 10: DIY Invisible Floating Bookshelf DIY Camera Stabilizer On-the-Cheap Backyard Shed Turned Home Office Set Up Cheap Ambient Lighting with Rope Lights Build Your Own Wire Photo Wall […]
