Make your own butter
Short an ingredient for some holiday cookies? Slashfood can help you create DIY butter (via Lifehacker). Mother Earth News has another take here.
DIY Projects
Small-scale biodigester
Here are plans for a small-scale biodigester. Some details: Have any commenters actually built or worked with methane-producing digesters? (via Chelsea Green)
Extremely last-minute, easy DIY gifts
My favorite: half-eaten gingerman ornament Our friends at Treehugger have a few solutions to unreciprocated gift-giving. Why not make some in case you get a present from somebody you didn’t expect?:)
Handmade sailing canoe
Tim Anderson’s canoe just underwent its maiden voyage, and it’s beautiful: Detailed, step-by-step Instructables are here. While you’re at it, make yourself a 5-minute paddle, too: http://p.webshots.com/flash/smallplayer.swf?videoFile=http://videoserve.webshots.com/video/10540/3019809250100343814CoHoeL_v_0.flv&audio=on&displayImagePreview=http://videothumb21.webshots.com/thumb/10540/3019809250100343814CoHoeLstill_001_0.jpg&videoPageUrl=http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/video/3019809250100343814CoHoeL&autoPlay=false&shareLink=http://cards.webshots.com/ecard/personalize?photoId=3019809250100343814%26source=v?.swf
DIY membrane pipe instrument
The Plasticfanpiper lives up to his name demonstrating a homemade ‘membrane pipe’ apparently built from straws balloons, and plastic valves – must be a pretty sturdy build to stand up to the air pressure. [Thanks, Stephen!] A quick search for “membrane bagpipe” turned up this interesting how to – The results produce a tone somewhat […]
Have a green and hackable holiday
Before Christmas this year, there seems to be plenty of neat holiday themed stuff with good parts about to go unsold. Anything with an overt holiday theme will be marked down the day after Christmas, so it is possible to think ahead and provision yourself for some maker fun for the months and years ahead. […]
Art deco LED desk lamp
Alan sent in a link to his Art deco LED desk lamp that he made. I really like how he made the base for the lamp from scratch. Check out the link for more about the build. [Thanks Alan] I built a stylish energy-efficient desk lamp, entirely from scratch. I have always enjoyed Art Deco […]