A plywood lamp is easier to build than it looks! In this project, I show how to create a globe lamp with a sculpted base at ...

Jeff Snider recalls that he was browsing through a book on Alexander Calder 20 years ago when inspiration struck for his own sculptural practice. “We had two hand mixers at the house, and later that ...

Before a spectrometer can do any useful work, it needs to be calibrated to identify wavelengths correctly. This is usually done by detecting several characteristic peaks or dips in a well-known ...

Some hacks are born of genius or necessity, and others from our sheer ham-fisted incompetence. This is not a story about the first kind. But it did give me an excuse to show how easy it is to design ...

In this video, I demonstrate how to build a bent-wood walnut lamp shade. Outrage after federal agents use tear gas just before Halloween parade in Old Irving Park ...

If you have plants in your home and live anyplace besides on the equator, you’ve likely looked into grow lamps to nurture your precious babies. You were probably also disappointed that grow lamps ...