The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
Detailed story of making a creepy Halloween-themed jello and pudding dessert in an acquarium. Made from all sorts of gummy worms, gummy salamanders, candy eye balls, licorice and lips – along with 19 packs of Jello. It’s so gross looking, I want to make this. Link.
Here’s how to add a javascript driven cursor following flying bat to your pages. You can download the 2.6kb zip archive, containing all you need and get startet…Good for Halloween, or if you have a goth site or something. Link.
Candy Addict writes “A blog from The National Association of Manufacturers where they post videos of things being manufactured commercially. There are some really interesting videos!” Here’s a post (with video) on how the Just Born candy company makes their treats. Link.
Complete HOW TO and source code for making a barcode scanner out of LEGOs. The Barcode Scanner uses standard LEGO parts with two exceptions. The first is the laserbrick, a selfbuilt LEGO brick with a modified laser pointer connected to an output of the RCX. The second part is the barcode label from a LEGO box.Thanks Douglas! Link.
Here’s a photo diary explaining how a group of Makers made a PC using a real pumpkin as the case. The Pumpkin PC uses a Latitude D410 motherboard and red flashing fans for eyes. It would be cool in version 2 to have a LCD screen that pull Flickr photos with tagged Jack-o-lantern photos. [via] Link.
Rick writes “Always wanted to experience the thrill of real flying but can’t afford it? Always wanted that ultimate accessory for you MS Flight Simulator 2000? This may just be the thing. Build your own motion system with 4 axis motion and a simple non direct connection to the simulator software. Fly that dream :)” There are 4 chapters for free and the PDF is $15, not too bad. Link.
Josh writes “To spruce up my 200 pound pumpkin carving for this old fashioned carving event I inserted a 5 inch DVD Player looping clips from classic horror movies. It was the only pumpkin at this contest that made use of any technology and generated a lot of buzz, especially with the kids. Use this idea on your doorstep this year and the kids won’t forget you, event if you still give them fruit!” Link.
