Slacking, part two
Still working on that cube. I have to redo a couple of dice because I made some mistakes with the polarities. Also, I cut mu pinky with an xacto knife. It’s ok though, just a bit bloody.
Tagged : xmas
25 Dec
Merry Christmas!
I’m taking the day off! See you on boxing day! Why don’t you use up some of your free time and make something today!
24 Dec
DIY Marble Magnets
These marble picture fridge magnets thingys make great stocking suffers. Useful too, to stick on the fridge or on any metal surface, such as a file cabinet. They keep papers from flying everywhere or just be used to decorate your cube. The marbles you need for this project are very easy to find. Try home [...]
23 Dec
Green Gift Wrapping
This is yet another gift wrapping post. This one focuses on reusing old newspapers (or this morning’s newspaper) to wrap gifts. Wrapping gifts with newspapers is a great idea considering that most wrapping papers are produced overseas, with little or no recycled content, and are used to re-package something that’s already packaged! The general idea [...]
23 Dec
A Festivus for the Rest of Us
Happy Festivus! If you have nothing planned tonight, perhaps you should embrace the Festivus for the Rest of Us. [???] A Festivus for the Rest of Us: How to Celebrate the Seinfeld Holiday [link] If you’re to lazy to make it yourself, you can buy a festivus pole here.
22 Dec
Homemade Holiday Cards and Gift Wrapping
Yay. I’m done with the crazyness. I’ve finished my Christmas shopping tonight. No more long lineups at the cash register, no more fighting in the parking lots, no more fracking Christmas music. All that’s left is to wrap those gifts. How about you? Done with the Christmas gifts? Maybe you don’t celebrate the Christian holiday. [...]
18 Dec
101 of the Best, Strangest and Coolest Gadget Gift Guides
Just in time for last-minute Christmas shopping, a guide to 101 shopping guides! If you can’t find a gift in there, you might as well give some gift certificates. 101 of the Best, Strangest and Coolest Gadget Gift Guides [link] [via]
13 Dec
How to Wrap Christmas Gifts Using Trash
Christmas is a capitalistic orgy of overconsumption. You know it’s true. If we’re not ready to cut down on the Christmas junk we give each other, maybe we can cut down on the junk used to wrap the gifts. This project is an interesting take on this concept: turning cracker boxes, or cereal boxes into [...]
12 Dec
Arduino-Powered Holiday Lights
Wanting to take full control of his Christmas tree, Brian from Hackszine used the open-source Arduino microcontroller to drive a homemade grid array of 64 LEDs. Pretty nice. Again, a nice project that can be decontextualized, rehashed and reinterpreted in the true hacker/xmas spirit. Arduino-Powered Holiday Lights [link] [via]
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