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Merry Christmas from all of your pals at Maker Media. We enjoyed collaborating with you all in 2010 and look forward to even bigger and better things in 2011. In the meantime, please enjoy this Max and Dave Fleischer Depression-era cartoon that so beautifully captures the spirit of a DIY Christmas. [Thanks, Laurie Stepp!]

Have a great holiday!

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Hope everyone is having a fine Christmas eve. Here's a little holiday mood music, from our friends at ShopBot.
[Thanks, Bill Young!]

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Johngineer writes:

My mother collects rocking horses. She tries to get at least one each year for Christmas. This year, she couldn't find anything she liked in the stores, so I made her one out of brass stock I had lying around.

I did a little CAD drawing to help myself visualize what it would look like. You might find it useful. There are very few dimensions, but you can still use it as a guide to bending the stock. The drawing is 1:1, so if you print out the PDF, you can just lay the bent metal on the paper to check the contour.

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John Graham-Cumming, of Geek Atlas fame, has posted a piece to answer the perennial question "Why do Christmas lights all go out when one bulb blows?" (the old-school in-series non-LED variety). And he shows ye ol' "binary chop" technique for quickly rooting out the dead bulb.

Why do Christmas lights all go out when one bulb blows? (and how to find the broken one)

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John Graham-Cumming, of Geek Atlas fame, has posted a piece to answer the perennial question "Why do Christmas lights all go out when one bulb blows?" (the old-school in-series non-LED variety). And he shows ye ol' "binary chop" technique for quickly rooting out the dead bulb.

Why do Christmas lights all go out when one bulb blows? (and how to find the broken one)

Read the Full Story » | More on MAKE » | Comments » | Read more articles in Holiday projects | Digg this!