HOW TO – Lazy Days Skirt
Oliver + S shares a free pattern download for making this easy, breezy summer skirt for a little girl.
Kids & Family
Kaleidoscope your photos
Here’s a fun online toy I found through Deep Fun– you paste in the url from an online image you like, and the software converts it into a kaleidoscope image – you can change the kaleidoscope image by clicking and dragging with your mouse. (that’s my cat, Jamie)
Cow poo for your amusement (rides)
The California State Fair has an amusement ride powered by cow manure. It’s called the “Barnyard Animal Train”, and uses biogas from Pacific Gas and Electric. The fair runs through September 1st, so there’s still time to go! Via Ecogeek More: The power of poo On Human Manure
Mark Applebaum’s musical sculptures
Mark Applebaum is a musician (and professor at Stanford) who makes incredibly complex sound sculptures from found objects. (Via DeepFun) The instruments consist of threaded rods, nails, wire strings stretched through a series of pulleys and turnbuckles, plastic combs, bronze braising rod blow-torched and twisted, doorstops, shoehorns, ratchets, steel wheels, springs, lead and PVC pipe, […]
LockWasher robots
We’ve written about Lockwasher’s rayguns before – he has some great junk robots, too!
Lo-tek R/C hovercraft
Here’s an R/C hovercraft toy made mainly out of junkbox parts: The workings of a hovercraft are fairly straightforward: one high-power motor with an airplane propeller forces air down through the hole in the center, which pushes the bottom of the hovercraft off the ground. This greatly reduces friction, allowing the hovercraft to scoot around […]
HOW TO – Fabric Beach Balls
The Purl Bee sharea a tutorial for these multicolored and cuddly fabric beach balls–a fabulous project to make when you’ve got a ton of fabric scraps laying around.
