How-To: Tetrahedtral Kite
It’s going to be a beautiful weekend; go fly a kite! Built with straws and Tyvek by Instructables user emilyfis.
Kids & Family
Custom Map Quilts
Some folks at Haptic Lab are making these luxuriously customized map quilts: Soft-Maps are handmade quilted maps of Brooklyn neighborhoods and parks that represent your unique place in the city. These heirlooms are meant to be used: wrap your children in them, have a picnic, pull them close during the next Nor’easter. Not only beautiful, […]
Plastic Bottle Jump Rope
Zakka Life shows you how to keep your kids busy this summer by making them a plastic bottle jump rope. I love the plastic flower embellishment.
How-To: Make a Faux Pearl Necklace out of Cornstarch Clay
Here’s a stylish project from Tissuepaper on how to make a faux pearl necklace and bracelet out of cornstach clay. Who knew you could whip up some jewelry in the kitchen. It’s also a a fun project for kids.
Giant net-enabled Etch A Sketch
Does this hacker ever sleep? The prolific Jeri Ellsworth is at it again. Here, she builds a 52″ Etch a Sketch with the screen from a rear-projection TV, some tent poles, screen door pulleys, some cheap Harbor Freight drill motors, a golf tee (for the stylus), and some aluminum powder. They also designed a web […]
How-To Tuesdays: DIY Crayon & Sketchbook Kit
It seems like summertime is the season of the birthday party in my circle of friends, at least as far as the kids are concerned. So I thought I’d come up with a quick craft to make for the children in my life that would be both inexpensive to create and easy to personalize. Something […]
Beginning robot walker
ArduinoFun has a how-to on building this simple two-servo Arduino walker that’s a great starter robot project for kids. The body and legs were ordered from Ponoko. Shawn of ArduinoFun writes: My son is 11 and daughter is 5 and they really enjoyed doing this. I was amazed at my daughter already thinking of new […]
