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We can’t all paint like the boss himself, Bob Ross — but we can certainly try. Comedian Abbi Crutchfield takes on the challenge.
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View More Comedian Abbi Crutchfield paints along with Bob Ross, uses many charming ‘bad words’ in the process —The Bob Ross ChallengeAmazon’s Alexa may be in ten thousand different devices now, but they all have one other thing in common: they’re new. So for those of us that prefer old things but still want to be able to set timers and do metric-imperial conversions without pulling out our phones, Grain Design is retrofitting these fabulous old telephones to provide Alexa access with no other hints of modernity. There’s even a privacy angle!
View More These antique phones are precious, private Alexa vesselsMyq Kaplan boldly takes on the challenge of following along with the Joy of Painting legend himself. Will he make his former 8-year-old self proud?
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There’s no shortage of interesting electronics kits out there to occupy an idle Sunday, but with this one you get a phone out of the bargain. The MakerPhone is a kit looking for funds on Kickstarter that lets you assemble a working mobile phone from a number of boards and pieces, and the end result looks about as wild as you’d expect.
View More Make your own phone with MakerPhone (some soldering required)Aparna Nancherla goes into the Bob Ross Challenge overconfident. Turns out not everyone can follow in the Joy of Painting master’s footsteps. Read more…More about Art, Mashable Video, Diy, Comedy, and Painting
View More Comedian Aparna Nancherla tries to paint like Bob Ross — The Bob Ross ChallengeThe only thing better than Ikea is Ikea hacks.
The Swedish furniture chain has everything you could ever need, from sofas to salt and pepper shakers. What you may not realize is Ikea’s bountiful home goods are also super easy to customize and alter.
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It’s Viral Market Crash week on Mashable. Join us as we take stock of the viral economy and investigate how the internet morphed from a fun free-for-all to a bleak hellscape we just can’t quit.
If we’ve learned anything from the Ken Bones and Chewbacca moms of the internet, or the graveyard of expired memes collecting virtual dust in an online database, it’s that viral fame is often fleeting. But every now and then, a weird little subculture starts trending and doesn’t stop.
Over the past decade or so, attention from the outside world has caused internet subcultures once considered niche — like the furry fandom and the Neopets and DIY communities — to transition from underground to mainstream. But when a community goes viral, what happens next? Read more…
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View More What happens when internet subcultures get discovered by the massesGot some spare time this weekend? Why not build yourself a working rover from plans provided by NASA? The spaceniks at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory have all the plans, code, and materials for you to peruse and use — just make sure you’ve got $2,500 and a bit of engineering know-how. This thing isn’t made out of Lincoln Logs.
View More NASA’s Open Source Rover lets you build your own planetary exploration platformYour home is your sanctuary. Your choice of decor has an impact upon the overall energy of your space, and adding a little greenery is one of the easiest ways to truly transform a house or apartment into a home. In fact, studies have shown that indoo…
View More Turn your apartment into an urban oasis with these DIY home gardening productsThe Easy Fermenter lets you ferment just about anything. We tested it out and made our own kimchi. The results were surprisingly good! Get your own Easy Fermenter here. Read more…More about Food, Mashable Video, Diy, Vegetable, and Cooking
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There may always be room for Jell-O, but it rarely needs sharpening.
The person behind the YouTube channel Kiwami Japan somehow made an actual knife using gelatin candies. He took a few blobs of it, melted it down, then shaped it with the help of a regular knife.
Then, with the help of an air purifier, he dried the bright green gelatin until it was hard enough to sharpen, which he did with a number of diamond whetstones. The whole process took a few days.
With his new gelatin knife, he cut up a zucchini. An impressive feat — and he claims it’s one of the top three sharpest knives he’s ever made, followed by carbon fiber and pasta. Read more…
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View More YouTuber somehow manages to make a useable knife out of Jell-oReplicas of Star Wars weapons are not uncommon. But Joerg Sprave took weapon replication to the next level, creating a copy of Rey’s blaster that not only looks like the real thing, but also shoots like the real thing.
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