I saw this here: http://www.youaremyfave.com/2012/05/08/wind-up-paper-butterflies-are-my-fave-guest-post-from-amelia/, on Pintrest. The idea was wonderful, it reminded me of my Dad’s favorite April fool’s joke. He called it Rattle Snake Eggs.

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How to Make a Twirling Paper Butterfly

Making mini, doll sized macarons is a lot of fun…well if you consider baking one of the hardest, most challenging cookies in the world and then making it miniature, but never fear, I’ll step you through the process. Gather your ingredients Macarons are made of very simple ingredients, the tou…

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Mini Macarons

Here is a tiny desk with a chair, the desk is about an inch long. It even comes with several accessories for…whoever will sit in this desk. Perfect for a tiny office building.

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Micro Office Desk and Chair With Accessories

One of my favorite hobbies is making rolling ball sculptures. I usually make RBSs out of copper but being a geek I thought it would be cool to make a virtual sculpture and 3D print it on Shapeways. I started first by trying to model an RBS with Blender.

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Programmatic Creation of a 3D Model for 3D Printing

We are massive fans of Angry Birds. Who isn’t?

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Makedo Catapult

Moving to a new home with nothing but grass in the back yard, (having left our carefully cultivated, well-tended, critter-friendly garden behind), was disconcerting – especially with no budget for gardening.

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CREATE A SMALL SOLAR POND & GARDEN FOR AROUND $100

My son and I built a wooden T-Rex at one of the free workshops they have for kids at Lowes. They have them at Home Depot also and if you’ve never taken your kids, its a great way to get them started on building things. He loved playing with the T-Rex so much that I decided I would build him some f…

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Wooden Toy Dinosaurs

This is an instructable for building your own bicycle frame jig. It was designed by ideas2cycles for bonding, laminating, brazing and tack welding

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A simple bicycle frame jig

Walking between the Instructables office and TechShop, I often pass by a huge Keith Haring sculpture on Howard and 3rd (see image above by Franco Folini on Flickr).

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Keith Haring Paper Chain

Summer building season is heating up. Contractors and ambitious DIYers are taking long looks at their kitchens, bathrooms, and backyards and planning remodels while the weather is warm and vacation time is plentiful. Alley stalkers can take advantage as old cabinets are put out to the curb.

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Scrap Nightstand