The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
Suzy (aka GeorgiaPeachez) recently posted some colorful work-in-progress photos of a stodgy mirror she’s been making over. A coat of fresh white paint and a ton of vintage enamel brooches are turning a ho-hum mirror into a breath of fresh air! Link. Related: Brooch Display – Link.
Chickpea Sewing Studio shares a PDF tutorial for making these eye-catching fabric pinwheels, which she turned into a fun mobile. Link.
Here’s a nice project that shows you how to insert a pause button into your existing Sega Master System console game controller. Simply add a few resistors and a new button that simultaneously pushes the left and right directions at the same time to send a ground signal to a 4071 gate IC. This then […]
Popular Mechanics has an informative piece on the many trials and tribulations of the fledgling “jet pack” industry, starting with the deceit in the name itself: Then there’s the bad news. First, these jet packs aren’t what they seem: Jet-powered devices are in development (and models were tested as early as the ’60s), but all […]
Last year around this time of the morning I was getting calls and emails from people asking “why did MAKE put LED sculptures all over Boston??? CNN says you did!!” it turned out that we (MAKE) had written about LED art projects on MAKE and when CNN Googled (or Ask Jeeves’d) they assumed it was […]
Robert Wechsler made these circular bikes from nine salvaged bikes. They were reassembled into a carousel formation, the bikes are modular and can be dismantled and reassembled. It is normally left in public places where it can attract a variety of riders – [via] Link.
Design Sponge posted about a great how to sent in by a reader. D*S reader Heather Smith-Prisco made her own version of retro kitchen storage containers and posted photos and instructions on Flickr. [via] Link.
