Michelle @ CRAFT writes:
Ikea Hacker points out lamps that Jim makes from things he finds at Ikea like this Ordning colander. I can’t say I would ever use a colander as a lampshade, but it does look pretty cool.
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Original post by Becky Stern
Unlike a lot of other chair mods I’ve seen, these actually look cozy. This photo was taken at the 2007 California State Fair. (Via Cute Overload) And if white fluffy animals aren’t to your taste, here are a couple of other takes on the genre from Moss, designed by the Campana brothers.
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Original post by Patti Schiendelman
Equipped with thermal tracking, ultrasonic proximity sensors, and stylish brown vinyl exterior - RoboStool is everything tired tech-loving feet long for -
In a continuing effort to create unique and unusual robots I just completed RoboStool – a robotic foot stool. Where would such an idea as a robot foot stool come from? I’m not really sure but one day while waiting for my wife to finish shopping in a Bed Bath and Beyond (and totally bored of course) I spied the ultimate in tacky furniture - a cubed shaped foot stool covered in the finest of brown vinyl. At that moment it occurred to me that this foot stool was just begging to be automated. And thus began the RoboStool project.
Now where’s the control that activates the Reclin-o-Tron?
- RoboStool - Furniture. On-Demand. [via LadyAda’s Ranting]
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Original post by Collin Cunningham
On EMS Labs, Lenore has a clear, well-documented and photographed piece on keeping your butt close to those beloved bluejeans long after the knees and crotch have worm out by turning them into seat cushions.
Chair Reupholstery with Used Denim
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Original post by Gareth Branwyn
Here’s another one for the wacky chair file.
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Original post by Gareth Branwyn
This project shows you how to build a compact DIY router table using a large piece of MDF at the top. Pretty nice construction set at the link below on building this structure to enable lots of potential future makes.
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Original post by Jonah Brucker-Cohen
ToolCrib has a roundup of free sawhorse plans, and if you can’t find what you’re looking for in a sawhorse there, I don’t know where you will. Unless, of course, you’ve designed your own. Please share your plans with us in the comments! Via Core77. Image from Woodworkingtips.com.
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Original post by Becky Stern
Filed under: Robots
We can’t fully express the awesomeness of RoboStool with mere words, but we’ll try. A product of Norris Labs, this robotic foot stool can be navigated in a trio of ways: by using a remote control, by actually tapping into a satnav or by utilizing a thermal sensing system to make it follow its master around. We don’t suppose you need more than one guess to pick which of the three is our favorite, and there’s a nice demonstration video of said choice waiting after the jump. IKEA, you on this or what?
Continue reading Video: RoboStool follows you around, never leaves you sans a seat
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Original post by Darren Murph
Milk crates are very versitile, and for many, a college staple. Often it doesn’t take more than a few bungee cords or a length of rope to turn a few into whatever storage or furniture solution you need. Here’s a chandelier made from several. The linked article also has several other milk crate furniture mods. Via Core77.
Here at MAKE, we believe in the perpetuation of milk crate ingenuity. Here are a few more:
Milk crate crab pots!
Milk crate jerky maker
Milk crate bicycle saddlebags
Crate people on CRAFT
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Original post by Becky Stern
From the MAKE Flickr pool: user Queen Esoterica hacked her Ikea kitchen butcher block counter to include a bowl. She writes:
You shove cut stuff into the bowl (I tend to cut right to left). then you can take the bowl to wherever you’re cooking and then brush the trash into the (soon to be plastic-lined) drawer, for easy transport to the trash. I got two bowls of equal diameter, one deeper and one shallower. To use the deep one, you have to remove te drawer. But I didn’t even forsee how great this would be for baking! It was great!
This would be a dream for me. I might be inclined to use the bowl for scraps, too, depending on what kind of cookery’s going on.
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Original post by Becky Stern
What do you do with your crutches after that nasty crash on bicycle? Well, if the wheels are still in good shape you could always make your own stool to commemorate the occasion. Then again, you can find old crutches and some wheels in the recycling and/or garbage and forgo the whole bicycle accident part.
Learn how to make a Seat made from bike parts and crutches
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Original post by Marc de Vinck
This project turns a vintage “Planet Lamp” into a parabolic microphone for recording and uses a CMoy, low power amplifier circuit for the microphone. The whole project runs runs from a 9 volt battery. Check out the link for circuit diagrams and instructions for this project.
The Lamp - Parabolic Microphone
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Original post by Jonah Brucker-Cohen
Here’s a chair made out of furniture-grade birch plywood, pine dowels, cast aluminum, and pool noodles for the cushions.
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Original post by Gareth Branwyn
Rishi Oswal (of in and around San Diego, CA) lives in his car. Now, what separates him from that guy in his van down by the river is this totally incredible custom bed platform he made to go inside his Honda Element. He documented its creation insanely well on his blog, with every little detail explained. Even if you don’t live in your car, this would make for a roadtripper’s dream! (Thanks, Lisa!)
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Original post by Becky Stern
Filed under: Household
Remember that hundred pack of blank cassettes you bought back in ‘93 when they hit 90-percent off? Man, those were the days. Unfortunately, you only got around to making three or four mix tapes, leaving you with quite a few unused hunks of junk cluttering up the closet. If you’ve managed to hang onto ‘em just knowing a worthwhile use was just around the bend, congratulations. The ingenious cats over at Transparent House have glued an assortment of old tapes together and inserted neon lights within to keep things cool and create a rather impressive source of lighting. Oh, and if you can’t figure this one out sans a how-to guide, maybe DIY work just isn’t your bag.
[Via technabob]
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Original post by Darren Murph
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