Wanna learn one of the greatest skills known to man? A skill so life changing you’ll never go back? You do? Great. Screen printing is one of the funnest activities you can do, the ability to create a set of posters, packaging, t-shirts easily and relatively quickly is one of its biggest draws. The problem is all the gear you need. The guys at Print Liberation have put together a complete DIY screen printing kit for your use, and when they say complete they mean complete. All with a dedicated store for all the consumerables it’s now even easier to set up a small print workshop in your own home. Visit the whole store here and Design Milk have a competition going for US residents where you can win a whole bundle of goodies here.

Wanna learn one of the greatest skills known to man? A skill so life changing you’ll never go back? You do? Great.

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Here’s something you can do this Easter (now that the chocolate is eaten) build a scooter from Ikea stools. You may have heard of the idea of Ikea Hacks, essentially you take a couple of Ikea products and using the simplistic shapes and methods of attaching you create other objects out of them. It’s most basic element Ikea is like Lego for adults – and the best part of Lego is ignoring the instructions and building your own creations. Check out this guide for creating a child’s scooter out of Ikea stools from Andreas Bhend and Samuel N. Bernier that looks like a cross between a wooden rocking horse and a minimalist Tron bike. View the whole guide here on Instructables.

Here’s something you can do this Easter (now that the chocolate is eaten) build a scooter from Ikea stools.

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DIY.org is the place to be if you’re a kid, the site is a haven for projects and ideas and aims to turn kids into makers. How far the internet has come, I remember when I was a kid playing on the internet for 30 minutes only after 6pm and there were very few games. Now with sites like DIY hopefully paving the way there are so many ways to get your children involved in all sorts of creative ideas and fuel their imaginations without the use of cartoons. DIY is a site designed to be an almost encyclopaedic forum for kids to post things they’ve made, share tips and earn patches for design challenges. Do yourself a favour and get them involved with this community. www.diy.org

DIY.org is the place to be if you’re a kid, the site is a haven for projects and ideas and aims to turn kids into makers.

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From The Archives – Yellow Drum Machine. Learn how to build this charming yellow drumming robot from the man himself. ‘From The Archives’ is a new occasional feature where I sort through a bunch of naff posts from the archives of The How To Project and take a better look at them. First up is the adorable Yellow Drum Machine. Built by Frits Lyneborg the Yellow Drum Machine is a small Frankenstein-looking robot that searches for surfaces to drum on to. That sounds simple enough and slightly dull when you try to imagine it; however they in which it does this is so strangely human you can’t help but smile. Take a look at the video below to see what I mean. You can now build your own version of the Yellow Drum Machine using a set of downloadable guides and step-by-step instructions from Frits. I think it’s brilliant that he’s given this idea to the masses to play with for free, this is how you get kids into engineering and programming – with innovative DIY projects like this. Of course it’s not going to be completely straight forward but there are also a bunch of guides he’s written about basic programming and, for lack of a better word, robot making! Take a look here and show the guy some love.

From The Archives – Yellow Drum Machine. Learn how to build this charming yellow drumming robot from the man himself.

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A huge thanks to The Made Project for hosting me at their second Market. The sun was out, there were beautiful bikes on show and the posters were flowing. Picked up some handy tips from pro-market sellers and will be doing this again for sure! If you have any suggestions for markets in the Gloucester/Cheltenham area, then give me an email. Stay lucky! Michael

A huge thanks to The Made Project for hosting me at their second Market. The sun was out, there were beautiful bikes on show and the posters were flowing. Picked up some handy tips from pro-market sellers and will be doing this again for sure!

If you have any suggestions for markets in the Gloucester/Cheltenham area, then give me an email.

Stay lucky!

Michael

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