Some new progress on X10 Home Automation with Arduino.
Integrated Arduino X10 Send/Receive Library
Arduino W800RF32A Library
Wed 31 Mar 2010
Arduino and Home Automation
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Fri 23 Oct 2009
Halloween Alien Costume
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Here’s the Halloween 2009 costume. It’s the original H.R. Giger Alien from Alien. Working jaw & motorized tongue! Build instructions here.
Sun 20 Sep 2009
A Modular Halloween With Grid Beam
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I love Halloween, but don’t like the clutter it creates afterwards. Make some grid beam, and you’ve given yourself an erector set for Halloween.
covered kicking legs prop using grid beam, pvc, and a wiper motor
Thu 4 Dec 2008
Twenty Five Creative Re-Use Ideas for Books
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Stuck with a bunch of books that aren’t worth selling or even donating? Here’s a variety of ways to transform them into something else.
Tue 2 Dec 2008
How To Declutter Your Book Collection in a Few Easy Steps
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While nothing can beat boxing up your books and donating them to clear out the shelves, there’s a lot of cases where you want to put a little more thought into it. Here’s my strategy for keeping the book collecting from getting out of hand. Declutter your book collection in a few easy steps.
Related: book-collection-trimming
Wed 29 Oct 2008
General Grievous Halloween Costume
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My newest costume is finally up. It’s got some finishing touches to go, but I wanted to squeak it on the site before Halloween in case some of the techniques were useful to other DIY costume makers.
Here’s my version of the General Grievous Costume for Halloween ‘08!
Sun 12 Oct 2008
Creatrope Halloween
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Several of my favorite posts involve Halloween costumes & props. I’ve got a few more in the works, but I thought I’d point new readers to our Halloween posts:
http://www.creatrope.com/blog/make/alien-costume/
http://www.creatrope.com/blog/make/godzilla-costume/
http://www.creatrope.com/blog/make/high-tech-robot-halloween-costume/
http://www.creatrope.com/blog/make/rocking-gravestone/
http://www.creatrope.com/blog/make/quick-pvc-halloween-mannequin/
Mon 16 Jun 2008
Make a card cable organizer to prevent your cords from falling and keep them nicely organized at the back of your desk.
Wed 16 Apr 2008
Velcro Small Tools To The Toolbox for Easy Access
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Sun 25 Nov 2007
Art Supply Reduction
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I purged about 3/4 of my art supplies I’ve been collecting over the years. The area I kept them in (a floor to ceiling shelf with boxes on each shelf) did not inspire crafts for my family because it was overrun and not terribly well organized. I had done a few passes over the years to gather like materials together, but it was too much.
Here’s how I organized it. The discarded materials were gathered together to give to Goodwill, they are all still usable, I just had too much!
When I finished I had a shelf that had about 1/4 of the material, but it was much more approachable, and allowed for about 90% of the craft types that it did before the purge. That’s a pretty good clutter trade-off. Like any other decluttering project, just getting started creates nearly all the momentum you need to finish.
Good luck!
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