Holiday Projects

DIY LED Valentine’s Day heart

The folks at NerdKits, who gave us the DIY Marque LED Array Project, now built on that project with the DIY LED Heart for Valentine’s Day. Using their USBNerd Kit, 20 red 5mm LEDs, and some cardboard, Humberto shows you how to create an electronic Valentine’s heart that twinkles and prints out messages o’ love […]

Groundhog Day is Today

It’s Groundhog Day and Punxsutawney Phil, everyone’s favorite weather-related groundhog, has seen his shadow, predicting six more weeks of winter. Here are some ideas for celebrating! Embrace the cold Build a snow fort, or turn your back yard into an ice rink. Make some crepes Photo is “Grand Marnier crêpe, flambé @ Crêpérie Des Artes, […]

It’s Groundhog Day – MAKE something!

It’s Groundhog Day – MAKE something!

It’s Groundhog Day and Punxsutawney Phil, everyone’s favorite weather-related groundhog, has seen his shadow, predicting six more weeks of winter. Here are some ideas for celebrating! Embrace the cold Build a snow fort, or turn your back yard into an ice rink. Make some crepes Photo is “Grand Marnier crêpe, flambé @ Crêpérie Des Artes, […]

Superbowl Sunday foods

Superbowl Sunday foods

I live in central Arizona, where it’s hard to avoid the droves of Cardinals fans at every turn (I didn’t even know that the Cardinals wasn’t just a baseball team until a few weeks ago), all buying cases of Bud to drink during the big game. Although I find football just about as mindless as […]