Globe BBQ Grill
Grill your grub at the center of the Earth with this globe-shaped cooker.
Home Entertainment
Super Mario retro room mural
Nathan Roberts wrote a great step-by-step on how he revamped a plain bedroom into something special for his son. And with the pixelated retro Super Mario theme, this should appeal to some older “kids” in our audience as well.
Charcoal grill made from recycled naval mine casings
I am usually immune to the yen for expensive man-cave trophies, but I gotta admit: I would have a great time standing over this thing with a beer in one hand and a meat fork in the other explaining to my guests how my fancy grill was handmade in Estonia from recovered naval mine casings.
How-To: Cast a solid ice beer caddy
Rob Cockerham–who has previously brought us spring shoes, a sweet Doc Ock costume, and How Much is Inside?, among other delights–wanted to serve a six-pack out of a solid block of ice. The block had to be cast with openings that would hold the bottles tightly but still let them slip loose when somebody wanted one. It took a bit of trial and error, but he eventually got the process figured out. The whole story is here. Rob hasn’t tried it yet, but he thinks, as I do, that one of these will probably float in a swimming pool fully loaded. Nice work, Rob! [via Boing Boing]
Pizza oven/Hellmouth
Spotted at Marcello Pizzaria & Ristorante in Vancouver by Adam Lindsley of This is Pizza. [via Neatorama]
Good-looking Ikeahacked speakers
Inspired by the classic spherical speaker array Instructable from user mzed, Charles Visnic created these cool wireless speakers by transplanting the guts of a pair of RocketFish speakers into some of birch bowls from Ikea, mounted rim-to-rim. It’s a very cool build, but I have to say I’m just as impressed with this clever little working tip from Charles’ write-up:
PVC pipe speakers
These are from Etsy seller ikymagoo, who also has red and yellow versions. They seem a bit pricey to me at $200 a set, but it also seems like an easy re-make. There’s video here showing that shows more detail, including the binding posts on the back. Some info on a similar build is available in this thread at the DIY Audio Projects Forum
