The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
Here’s Ryan from the 1-31-08 MAKE NYC meet up – “Mastering pipe mechanics and assembly” This seminar covers using home improvement store variety pipe and fittings to incorporate into your own DIY projects. Covering mostly PVC pipe construction and use, with dabbles in ABS, galvanized and copper pipe use. You’ll see a live demonstration of […]
Catch this ThreadHeads episode where Rebekah Potter shows you how to make a patchwork fabric bag from recycled clothing. You’ll also get to take a look into the world of recycled art and plastic bags. Related: Plastic Bag Crochet – CRAFT Video Podcast – Link. Plastic Bag Crafts – Link.
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Woah! Steve finished his LED Blaster and it looks incredible, He even posted an instructable for the project. Truly a top notch job. LED Blaster on Flickr-Link Make an LED Blaster on Instructables – Link Related: Homebrew Toy Blaster –Link
Julie at Subversive Cross Stitch has teamed up with writer/cartoonist Natalie Dee for some truly subversive valentines because these are the only two of these out of a total of five that I can post up here on the site. This special cross stitch kit will sure make you laugh as well as your special […]
For its price, the Rock Band drum kit is a pretty good set of electronic pads. That is – if you can actually use it out-of-game. Chris shows us how this can be on OS X with only 2 pieces of software and minimal config time. RockBand Drums Controlling GarageBand –Link Related: Rock Band drum […]
Here’s a good one for those looking to learn more about microcontroller projects and PIC chips more specifically. This clone of the Tengu sound visualizer runs a mini-game upon startup – created as a birthday gift for the author’s sister. The project is thoroughly explained even through a language barrier: its usage is very easy. […]
Here’s a photo set of the booths at Green Gadgets, I took pictures of all the signs so you can read about them (the Nokia ones are interesting) – my two favorites ones were the new Voltaic solar bag (the new Generator one) and the HY mini wind powered charger – Link.
