Monty on the Run, re-enacted by A Hamster
I can’t believe how much work someone put into this adorableness. I’d love to see remakes with other animals and games. Sonic with real hedgehogs? Via Cute Overload
Kids & Family
Tinkering around
Gever Tulley from the Tinkering School gave us this tinkering update: We’re off to test our canvas and PVC boats (eerily synchronistically coincident with the PVC and duct tape boat article) today in the harbor. Our boats are made with canvas that we are sealing with melted wax. The kids also built a cantilever bridge […]
Simple Kimono Wrap for Babies and Kids
Amy at Habitual has a PDF tutorial on how to sew up this simple kimono wrap with more sizing options from baby sized up to a youth 8. [ via Whip Up ]
Tissue Dispensing Robot
Aliceblue on Flickr collaborated with her son on this helpful tissue dispensing robot. I hope he is refillable or there could be tears at the end of winter (they are in Australia).
Visual Packing List
I love the clever way House on Hill Road gets her kids involved in packing for family trips: she gives them a visual packing list, which is a fun way to turn a chore into a game while ensuring the kids will bring everything they’ll need.
Image transfer
I just found this great tutorial on image transfer – they cover lots of different transfer mediums for use on wood, paper, fabric, and glass. Xylene is a really toxic chemical, I’d stay away from it – the other mediums are pretty benign. I never knew you could use caulk! An image transfer is, to […]
WiiCar
Jon Edmiston wrote a nicely flexible C# application to control a LEGO NXT car with a Wiimote – he says he could switch the remote out for a Wii balance board and he could still control the car. via NXT Step
