The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
Want to create a robot walking machine for yourself, but don’t want to deal with all of the fussy gyro stabilization and gait-control issues? Here’s how to fake it. (And get your started thinking about NEXT Halloween’s costume.) Build your own steampunk chicken-walker – Link
Sunshine’s Creations has a great tutorial on how to embroider you own felt ornaments by using cookie cutters as shapes. Link.
Did you know that there is a stew of plastic twice the size of Texas floating in the Pacific? In an attempt to reduce the amount of plastic that I use and throw away, I decided to make shrinky dinks out of used salad containers and document the steps.
This MacGyver wannabe fashioned a reportedly decent-sounding speaker from little more than a magnet, wire, a plastic cup and LEGO parts. How To Make a Speaker – [via] Link
REMINDER — Dale from the NotBAGO Maker meeting writes in – Hello Phillip, We’re having our 4th meeting of NotBAGO, a meeting for Makers in the Ann Arbor area, on November 13. Details below. Ann Arbor (MI) fans of Make Magazine, Circuit Cellar, Digital Machinist, Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools, and other similar interests are cordially […]
The next CDM, ETSY and MAKE night is coming up, Peter writes – Handmade Music, the semi-regular evening of DIY musical oddities brought to you by CDM, Etsy, and Make Magazine, will mercilessly descend upon yet another peaceful Brooklyn evening. Expect an informal, free party + show and tell + science fair featuring self-made electronic […]
This version of the mega hit game “Guitar Hero” lets you punk out with your own accordion. That’s just the kind of impetus I need to fashion my own version of the game like “Recorder Hero”, “Ukulele Hero”, “Castanet Hero”, ahh the possibilities are endless. Still, it’s a nicely done game mod. Spiele – Accordian […]
