Posted on April 6th, 2010 by samuel.sveen
Jolly ho, chap! I seem to be getting progressively less ambitious with my Hummingbird projects… Or, just more doable for the average Jose/Josephine. Anyway, this week, we’re making tennis shots—shot glasses made from tennis balls! You’re thinking: ‘Gross!’ And, ‘So impractical!’… but WRONG! They sit up just fine (no rolling around), the fuzzy hairy stuff [...]
Posted on March 22nd, 2010 by samuel.sveen
Rubber rain boots are obviously the way to go. It’s too bad that they seem to be something unmanly at Cornell—I haven’t seen any guys in rubber rain boots anyway. So today we’re gonna make manly rubber rain boots. (And unmanly rubber rain boots are totally cool too, duh.)
Posted on March 17th, 2010 by samuel.sveen
It depends on the project, but usually, the more the merrier. The first project, the snowskate, was pretty technical and kind of required a lot. I’ll try to keep it simpler from now on, but I just really had to make a snowskate. Anyway, here’s a list of tools and some alternatives –with their lowest [...]
Posted on March 1st, 2010 by samuel.sveen
Project 1: Snowskate ‘Tis the season of sledding. But as an addict of longboarding, trays and blowup swans just don’t quite do it for me, and real snowboards are just way too serious. The solution: a snowskate – a skateboard on skis. materials: -skateboard deck ~ any plank 30-35 inches. I’m cutting it out of [...]