Cylon teddy bear
Somebody lucky got this Cylon teddy bear for Valentine’s Day! Learn how to make your own with dragonvpm’s Instructable. In the Maker Shed: Larson Scanner Kit
Instructables
How-To: Make riveted chain mail
There are scads of tutorials flushing through the tubes that will show you how to twirl old wire coat hangers into rings, cut them up, and link them together with pliers to make the ubiquitous “butted” chain mail, in which the individual rings are either unjoined, soldered, or glued together. But this recent Instructable from armourkris, for the truly dedicated, shows you how to make a much more serious–and to my amateur eye, authentic–mail, in which each ring is flattened, punched, linked, and then riveted closed.
How-To: Wilderness chair
Here’s a neat Instructable for making a wood-and-rope-only camping chair, looks comfy! I can almost smell the campfire.
$2 iPod shoebox art enlarger
Using a shoebox, some convex lenses of varying focal length, and a bit of poster board maker manish15 has assembled an inexpensive art enlarger on the cheap. Similar to an epidioscope, the device projects an image onto a drawing surface.
How to make a paper-based animation
How to make a paper-based animation… not-bob writes – Have you seen the cards where there appears to be a moving picture just by using a piece of plastic with lines on it and an image underneath? This instructable shows you how to make your own with just a computer, printer, paper and transparencies. I’m […]
How-To: Kids’ dining footrest
Instructables user wramey writes: This cheap and easy addition to our dining room chairs prevents kids legs from dangling uncomfortably. It won’t get all their wiggles out, but it will help them sit more comfortably… and now that our kids can sit more comfortably facing the table, they get less food in their laps and […]
How-To: Adjustable kids’ bike jump
Insructables user murphtron writes: My son started riding a 16″ bike at 4 years old without training wheels. (He was first on a push bike without training wheels or pedals at about 3 1/2.) One day he decided to build a jump in the back yard. So he found a piece of 2 x 12 […]
