Home

The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.

Craft, Inc. Event at Reform School

Next week, we’ll be continuing our series of Craft Biz Q+As with a variety of creative businessfolks, but today I want to tell you about a must-attend event happening this Thursday in Los Angeles. Silver Lake’s greatest eco-friendly, handmade-design shop, Reform School, will be hosting a special event with Craft, Inc. author Meg Mateo Ilasco! […]

Fuel-cell flier

Fuel-cell flier

A fuel cell-powered remotely piloted aircraft buzzed quietly into the morning sky in a park near Van Nuys, Calif., August 25. The unorthodox flight was a triumph of collegiate innovation made possible by a nurturing program at California State University Los Angeles and a boost from NASA’s Academic Investments Office and the Air Force Office […]

Alpha (spoke) POV

Alpha (spoke) POV

Tristan Roddis of blog.cogapp.com writes: Following the great instructions from Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories, I built one, and then reprogrammed the chip to create a crude persistence of vision device, which could then be velcroed onto my spokes for use as a propaganda tool during the Critical Mass bike ride. Hardware hacking – the next […]

Ouiji Subwoofer

The Evil Decoder (Ouiji Subwoofer) is: A modified subwoofer which vibrates a Ouiji Pointer over Ouiji letters, spelling out the sinister directives that have been encoded in all popular music as subliminal messages. produced for the Playlist Thursday dj set of the same name, July 27, 2006 at the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto. […]