I recently decided to make some birdhouses for my mom. I challenged myself to use what I had in my pile of wood scraps. I ...

Brian Carlisle, a freelance graphic designer, has also turned them into an opportunity to up-cycle scrap metal. His colourful, retro-look birdhouses are bespoke pieces of recycling gold.

While building and selling birdhouses may not make you rich, it can provide a good source of additional part-time business income. The only requirements for starting a business that manufactures ...

9 during which creators designed, built and painted their own bird houses. Did you ever wonder who makes the absolute best roast beef sandwich North of Boston? Well, on Friday, July 19 ...

Just six pieces of wood make up the birdhouse. Enter the LoRa Birdhouse project by the Wellesley Amateur Radio Society that solves those two problems, although admittedly at a very small scale.

The most durable types of roofing are slate and clay tiles but they’re more expensive than materials like metal or wood. Functional roofing alternatives like green roofs and solar shingles are ...

Using 3D printing technology and ultrasonic joining techniques, researchers at TU Graz in Austria have attained an extremely strong joining of a renewable raw material wood with metal and polymer ...

It used an instrument called a sonotrode to send high-frequency, low vibration waves through the juncture of the wood and the metal polymers. This created friction, which generated enough heat to ...

The action, a combination of vibration and sawing, works well for cutting materials like metal, wood, and drywall and, with the right attachments, can also sand and file. While it’s not as ...

This polyurethane-based glue adheres to wood, metal, ceramic, plastic, solid surfacing, stone, brick, foam, and glass. It applies easily and doesn’t run as much as a PVA glue might. Once applied ...