How to Make an Ikea Plate Bird Feeder
Make an easy bird feeder out of Ikea bamboo plates. Perfect for sprucing up your garden while feeding our feathered friends.
Instructables
Cheap portable book scanner Instructable
For about $20 in parts and a spare point-and-shoot digital camera you can build a cheap portable book scanner with this Instructable from DHagen.
How-To: Make little green army men from paracord
Instructables user seamster produced this cool little DIY-posable-army-guy tutorial for their ongoing Paracord Contest. It’s OD cord over a wire armature, with one foot glued to a cardboard base.
How-To: Lego Nikon IR remote
KoZuEst made this nice compact IR remote for his sister’s Nikon camera using a PIC chip! Schematics and source code included.
How-To: Bamboo electric motorcycle
I love it when school groups make how-to projects. Bay School writes: For our high school senior project, we have created a bamboo electric motorcycle. This project has been extremely fun, challenging, and time consuming; this is not something you can do over a few weekends. The end goal for us was to create a […]
How-To: Make a piece of translucent concrete
This tutorial by Instructables user nepheron shows you how to embed ordered optical fibers in cast cement to produce a small lump of concrete that will transmit light. It’s based on Litracon, a commercial architectural material that, I believe, invented the concept. I’ve been considering a very similar “cast your own translucent cinder-block” type tutorial for the Make: Projects series for some time.
How-To: Make a pyramid bow from hardware-store lumber
Interesting Instructable from member Tool Using Animal (best ID ever) about how to buy red oak from the big orange store and turn it into a decent bow. He reports a 55-lb draw. [Thanks, Tim!]
