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Decorative Patch
I hate waste, and I like my clothes to look ... different, interesting... weird even. So when something I like gets a hole in it, I usually try to patch it. I recently patched some orange cords with...
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A Different Kind of Third Hand
I often solder things to other things -- well we all do, I suppose, but sometimes these things need a bit of pressure to stay together while being soldered, and the traditional third hand, which holds...
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Rolly House's first roll
My friend and I are working on a project we call Rolly House. It is still early stage but we just got it rolling for the very first time! Eventually it will be something along the lines of what the...
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Bluetooth Glove: Talk to the Hand!
This shows how I took apart a bluetooth headset and sewed it into a glove, so that I can talk on the phone just by holding my hand up to my head as if I were pretending to talk on the phone! But I...
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Project Bag
Here's a quick and easy project bag to hold any small piece of handwork that you want to take with you. Myself, I always have a knitting project of some kind going: hats, socks, scarves or mitts all...
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Googly Eyes Everywhere
I had the opportunity recently to observe a master eyeballer at work, eyeballing very many things! There are now more objects that, when you look at them, look back at you. I present a few of them...
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Bean Bag Eyes
For the hell of it, I took ten minutes today and glued some eyes onto the dev team beanbag chair. It looks askance at us, we look askance at it. The lovely Ultimate Dave models! Maybe it needs fangs...
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Shorten a belt
The easy way to shorten a belt is just to cut it off at the end with the holes, but what if you like the tail as it is? With most belts, you can also shorten them from the buckle end, preserving the...
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Laser Mohawk
Last year I went to Burning Man and made this laser mohawk which I attached to a hat I'd made some time ago (the hat is from a dragonfly costume). It was quick to make and looked really fantastic at...
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Cast Pewter Coat Clasps
I promised my friend a big pimped-out fake fur coat, and he loves heavy metal hardware. I had the idea to try making some gorgeous unique buckles for the coat. After some testing I decided that a...
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Making a 3-D Printed Mold
I recently had a project where I needed to create a couple dozen identical foam ear shapes. Casting from a mold is the clear solution here. However, the ears needed to fit onto an existing product,...
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Tapping screw threads
From time to time it is needful to screw something into something else, which may not yet accept a screw. If the something else is metal, screw threads can be cut into it using a handy tool called a...
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Stay-closed Trifold Wallet
Some years ago I made a wallet that I loved, but did not fully instructablize it. It wore out; I made another just like it: here's how! You need only about half a square foot of fabric. It needs to...
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Light-up squirrel roadkill patch
As part of a Burning Man camp, the participants wanted some awesome matching backpack covers of dead squirrels with lit up eyes. Don't ask why they wanted this; merely be awed by the implementation....
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Casting Flexible Polyurethane Foam
I have been making a series of 3D printed molds recently (see Making a 3D Printed Mold) and figured I should explain how I'm doing the casting. The molds are for animal ear shapes (it's a long story)...
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Pulse of the City
My friend George Zisiadis was heading up an interesting project for the UP! Urban Prototyping Festival last fall. He and another friend, Matt Ligon, were working on a circuit to sense a user's pulse,...
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Joshua Tree Cocktail
A delicious new tequila drink invented by a former sushi chef, Gerard Dumuk, of Midori Mushi. Requires tequila, a lime, maple syrup, ice, a cocktail shaker, a martini glass (negotiable) and a mixture...
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Dust-catching Glove Box
I'm in the middle of a project where I need to do a lot of working with plastic. Which when cut or sanded produces Large Amounts of fine, choking sawdust. I got a couple of nosefuls (and the Dremel...
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Soap carving for casting
How to carve a bar of soap into a smaller soap shape. Discussion of various tools that can be used for this purpose. A little silliness - the carving I made is a kind of slug thing - I'm going to cast...
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Hex Hats
Here's a pattern and instructions for two styles of brimmed hats with crowns made from six identical pieces. I like to make these from reclaimed materials. The orange one used to be two shirts, and the...
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