UptownUrbanCraft.com is DIY crafts you can use in your life.
This site describes core methods you can use to create and repair everyday objects, making arts & crafts.
This is a place for fundamental and hard to find ideas, like how to make wicking or pottery on a budget. Making wicking is a standard piece of knowlege for making a lamps. Wicks from the store burn slowly and if you want your homemade wick to burn out slowly then you add salt to your wick. Another general piece of knowlege is that pottery can be low fired in a barbeque grill. Basic ideas like these can open up all sorts of crafts to people. Some of these crafts might be done for art and other for utility. Either way, small ideas can change what people think they can do and that can open up a whole world of posibilities. That's what this site is all about. http://uptownurbancraft.com/news/craft-news-articles.php
What is an "Oatmeal Radio"? Oatmeal Radios were a type of early DIY do it yourself home made radios. Homemade radios usually use windings of wires for fine tuning and oatmeal boxes were common and a good size for this purpose. So many early homemade radios were built around a round oatmeal container...
