HOW TO – Make Easy Kid’s Shorts from a T-shirt
Julie-bird came up with a super simple pattern for making kid’s shorts out of an old t-shirt. This seems like a great idea for a time when a child grows so fast.
Kids & Family
Learning the Game of Life at family reunion
Over at LadyAda’s Tea Party, aspro648 posts about a recent family reunion where they used Adafruit’s Game of Life electronics kits as a build activity for the tweens and teens. They built and joined ten GoL kits. Cool idea! Game of Life – 10 boards! More: Game of Life – An electronics kit Game of […]
Transformers Birthday Cake
Zakke Life has some seriously lucky kids–look at the amazing Transformers-themed birthday cake their great-aunt made for them!
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 […]
