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Turning bombs into mufflers, Popular Science 1947 – “Practice air bombs, left over from the war, are being converted to a peacetime job. Air Forces trucks and autos in Germany urgently need mufflers, so the Bruck Air Ordnance Depot at Nuremberg is making them from surplus-bomb stocks. The project, started late in 1946, Has already […]
I have neat friends that send me interesting things in the mail, after a bit of travel I came home to this rare 1951 book called “How to make an atomic bomb in your own kitchen–well, practically!” by Bob Bale – I just started reading it, and so far it’s a great, if you can […]
If you are every looking for inspiration and a way for you to get your crafty creative juices going, check out the 52 Projects blog. From the site, “52 Projects is a site dedicated to thinking outside the craft. It’s all about projects and project-making. Project ideas, projects to create, projects to check out, and […]
Build a stowable mini workshop for modest tasks like lamp rewiring and scissor sharpening and soon you’ll be building your dreams.
Here’s a really neat stop motion film of retro video games using household objects – [via] – Link. Related: Frogger by PES – Link. Stop motion LEGO video – Link. How King Kong was made…the first one – Link. Stop Motion Animation, the Easy Way – With iStopMotion, making Gumby is less pokey. MAKE 02 […]
Crafter Jess Clement fell in love with craftmemo.com, a new site that is a craft record keeping and management tool for projects. She loves it so much, she even wrote up a review for us and shows us how to use the new Craft Memo site as place to inventory all your projects and supplies. […]
Interesting look back, forward – at robotics and computers from Mechanix Illustrated – 1953 (self-driving cars, robot elephants, prime number crunching computers, automatic factories, automatic sewing machines, self replicating Von Neumann machines) – “Our civilization is being invaded by a horde of mechanical men who are determined to change our way of life. But there’s […]
