Transformers Birthday Cake
Zakke Life has some seriously lucky kids–look at the amazing Transformers-themed birthday cake their great-aunt made for them!
Kids & Family
Light drawing tutorial
We pointed out this great Instructable on making LED light drawing pens a while back. Stuart and Lori have a really neat tutorial about light drawing on their site, LightDoodles. (I’ve always loved this picture of Picasso.) Light doodling or light drawing can be described as the simple act of capturing the trace of a […]
Stack the deck with a Magic 8-Ball
Here’s a messy dissection of a Magic 8-Ball. Really, don’t taste the blue fluid – sheesh, I can’t believe they did that. And I love the idea of modding one. If you were careful, you could repackage it and give it as a gift.
HOW TO – Make Bandanna Pants
WhipUp points us towards this tutorial for making a breezy pair of toddler pants from a couple of easy-to-find bandanna handkerchiefs.
BeetleBot Revisited
Jerome Demers, who did the BeetleBot project in Volume 12 of MAKE, has posted an updated version of the project, which is says is simpler to build, on Instructables. How to Build a Robot – The BeetleBot v2 ( Revisited) From the pages of MAKE: MAKE Volume 12: if you are a subscriber you can […]
HOW TO – Make an Octupus Puppet Glove
Julie K in Taiwan recreated an octopus puppet where your fingers get to be the octopus tentacles and wrote a tutorial. What a great project to do with kids.
ThingamaKIT build photos
Our pal John Edgar Park has posted photos of his building of the new ThingamaKIT from Bleep Labs.
