โI went online to buy aย nixieย clock and didnโt see any I really liked,โ says Woodland Hills, California tinkerer Sean Fannin about timepieces made from coldwar-era numeral-displaying nixie tubes. โA lot were DIY kits that ended up looking cheap. I wanted to build something a little more slick.โ After buying and assembling a basic kit clock, […]
Perched high in a coniferous tree in Sandpoint, Idaho sits a hexagonal treehouse, handmade by 23-year-old Ethan Schlussler. During the build process, he grew tired of climbing up and down the ladder over and over. So he created a treehouse elevator, using his momโs old bicycle. The elevator is a pulley system that uses a […]
Mexico is crisscrossed by a vast network of abandoned railroads, no longer connecting many communities that had once relied on their freight and passenger service. In 2006, Ivan Puig and Andrรฉs Padilla Domene, brothers and artists in Mexico City, cooked up the idea to explore the lost routes and places. โWe designed a spacecraft, a […]
Too big for your old Big Wheel? Get back in the race by building an adult-sized trike from plywood.
Picture it: A giant supermarket claw machine, but instead of a metal hand with a frustratingly weak grip, itโs a real-life chainsaw. In place of stuffed animals, there are stumps of wood on the cutting floor, ready for ripping.
Refinery 29 brings us another sweet handmade project for the home that I love. Turn rocks from your back yard into modern colorful bookends with this great how-to by the very talented Natalie Shriver.
Instead of cricking your neck to drink from a water fountain, what if the fountain cricked its neck for you? Tropism Well is an interactive sculpture that senses when someone is near and bows to pour water into a glass.
