Ecologue shares this fun recycled chandelier project, created using glass yogurt jars (baby food jars would work too), beaded chain from the hardware store, and an old circular cooling rack. What a lovely and inexpensive way to pretty up your garden!
Here’s a detailed Instructable on building a single-wheeled bike trailer, very similar to the $300+, critically-acclaimed B.O.B. trailer systems, for something like $20. Aside from the coolness factor, one vs. two wheels obviously gives you a nice lowered rolling resistance. My favorite quote from the build is the description of his hitch system (step 8). […]
Pedal to a cold drink… via TreeHugger. Home trainer with heat pump. In the left tub is a bottle of beer, but at the required pedaling to make the beer cool, it’s likely to give up before. A good example to collect personal experience with the princip of a heat pump.
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Sheesh, I know laptops are getting a lot lighter these days, but this is ridiculous! Yosoyelger shows off what at first appears to be an iBook of divine power, alas it is an old shell repurposed as an Applelover’s choice lighting fixture, which of course is still quite neato. […]
I give you my pick for geekiest costume I’ve seen this year: a giant LED costume. Yes, I agree with you that it should have real LEDs on the inside:)
Do you have some extra orange vegetables (or are they fruits?) in your yard? Get in the halloween spirit without having to actually carve anything, thanks to the help of peanut butter and squirrels!
Sean sent us a link to a very cool project. It shows you how to cast these really nice flowerpots using Styrofoam packaging materials and plastic cups. The end results are really nice. [Thanks Sean] More about How-to: Cast concrete planters using packing inserts
