Instructables member seamster made this wooden tabletop pinball game out of bits and pieces he had saved over time, like drawer knobs, dowels, rubber bands, and a recycle tool table. The ball is from a computer mouse!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/14/homemade-tabletop-pinball/From Modern Mechanix, one of my favorite blogs, here's the Swami, a simple pattern you can cut out on a piece of plywood that will let you defy gravity!As mystifying as the Indian rope trick, this magic marvel defies the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/09/defy-gravity-with-the-swami/While we're still in the subject of being crafty, here's a spiffy project if you have kids (or if you're simply young at heart): make your very own giraffe sock puppet.Craft Jr. has the step by step guide: Link - via One...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/01/diy-giraffe-sock-puppet/Why buy new lumber to make a house for chickens when you can use the front of an industrial clothes dryer, some wooden pallets, old steel shelves, a crate for shipping fish, and some old pizza boxes? Pete Betchik of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/27/clothes-dryer-chicken-coop/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGscXF1HxoQ][YouTube - Link]I made these plastic milk bottle lights by embedding LEDs in the caps, hanging them from a bent section of pipe and hooking them up to an Arduino microc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/25/recycled-milk-bottle-lights/I must've been living in a cave, because I missed this '08 post by Bonnie Burton of Star Wars blog on how to make your very own cuddly Bantha (y'know, the furry elephant-like animals ridden by the Tusken Raiders)http://w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/12/diy-cuddly-bantha/Microsoft's cool Surface computing device costs $1... ...process and explains the technology behind their DIY multitouch machine:There is, it turns out, a whol... ...re on the internet perfecting the art of building DIY multi-touch surfaces. The process isn’t exactly...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/09/build-a-multitouch-surface-computer-for-less-than-500/The Great Internet Migratory Box of Electronics Junk is sort roving flea market meets Internet meme. The idea, hatched by the guys over at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories, is to send a box containing random electronic...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/22/the-great-internet-migratory-box-of-electronics-junk/Inspired by some old Indianapolis racing books, Joseph Ihnat of Whiting, Indiana designed a 1930s-style race car sized to fit a four-year-old. He used some old kitchen equipment, including a Smoky Joe barbecue grill, fo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/01/poppens-special-kids-racer/John from J-Walk Blog was frustrated because his Kindle electronic reader needed to be propped up so he could read while eating. He could've spend $27.95 for a Kindle stand, but his wife handed him a 45-cent metal book...
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