Behold, the lidless eye of Sauron, in cupcake form atop the Dark Tower of Barad-dur. Instructables user RavingMadStudios made this Lord of the Rings cake for his kid’s birthday! More: Lord of the Rings papercraft Thorax cake Rubik’s Cube Cake(s) Automatic cake decorator Cockroach cake Cake art
You are probably already familiar with the PVC pipe marshmallow shooter, a classic, fun weekend project. Maybe you already have one. Next time you show up for some gooey, air-powered confectionary warfare, why not come packing some classy heat — the Deluxe Copper Mini Marshmallow Shooter Mk. II!
You’ll build it from lengths of copper pipe and standard fittings. The Dremel Multi-Max will cut your ½” dia. pipe to length with ease, so no more laboring over a hacksaw. Finally, you’ll need some basic pipe soldering skills to put it all together.
There’s a lot to like about this tutorial by Rain Noe over at Core77 about how to build upholstered benches called “banquettes,” not the least of which is Rain’s amusing and engaging prose style. His attention-grabbing opening line is one for the books. We don’t see a lot of DIY couch builds.
Instant classic — starring Becky Stern and Ladyada… This tutorial covers how to talk to a knitting machine! Once the interface cable is made, we can create cool custom patterns and load them from a computer! Adventures in communicating with the Brother KH-930e knitting machine! Watch the video on CRAFT.
David Ye’s clever BB gun is the bane of apples and fairly easy to make, judging by his great video. I got bored and decided to make a BB gun using my air compressor. The secret sauce is a one way valve that blocks air from the firing chamber but allows air in the other […]
Stop motion armatures require a model to hold poses without drifting, yet offer wide degrees of rotational freedom. Most professional armatures use precision machined ball and socket joints. Castlegardener’s blog shows how to make your own using threaded rod and pre-tapped balls from the hardware store.
Aram Bartholl writes: I am pleased to preview ‘Dead Drops‘ a new project which I started off as part of my ongoing EYEBEAM residency in NYC the last couple weeks. ‘Dead Drops’ is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space. I am ‘injecting’ USB flash drives into walls, buildings and curbs […]
