If you’ve found this post, I gather you want to build a racing drone and you’re looking for a place to start. By the way, I’m just learning too. Yes, I’m a Computer Engineering graduate, but I’m new to this field right now. Still, by the time you start reading this, the series will have moved forward a bit. I started the job by buying…

The charger of the laptop I bought in 2013 started wearing out over the years, its cables beginning to fall apart. As a solution I decided to wrap it in leather and cord. I had done the same for my Mac’s cable before and noticed it really worked — it pretty much eliminated the wear. So I decided to take this Windows machine a step…

In a journey that began with making my first leather notebook in 2021, I want to continue by telling you about papermaking. First, collect your old, used paper of the same color, then tear it into small pieces to prepare it for recycling. The next step is to soak these torn pieces in a bowl of water for 15 minutes. This softens the paper, letting…

It’s been a month, maybe two, since I set my mind on making this notebook. In the past I would want to finish and settle everything within a day or two. This time I said, let me take it slow. Let it move along gently. I took it so slow that it took weeks. Now I’ll try to show you how I made the notebook…

We were camping at Yalova / Çınarcık. This time I wanted to eat slightly fancier meals and mix it up, so I packed mostly ingredients I could turn into something hot. The first dish I made was pasta. I’ll list the ingredients now, but I’d recommend dialling the amounts to your own taste and the number of people you’re cooking for. My batch was enough…

When I sketch, a tilted surface has always felt more practical and comfortable than a flat one. So instead of buying an expensive drawing desk, I decided to build my own — in the style I wanted and fitted to a spot in my room. Here’s the result and roughly how I made it. As you can see in the video, the leg is hinged…

Gezgin Harfler A notebook trying to become a story as it travels from hand to hand. What Is Gezgin Harfler? In short, it’s a story notebook built by several people each writing 3 pages. Whoever has the notebook reads the story written by the previous contributors, writes their own 3-page continuation, and then ships it on to the next person. What Is the Goal? To…

Our rocket project “How to Build a Rocket?” — pretty attention-grabbing as a title, right? I’m not going to lay out the whole how-to right now; once we’re done, Furkan and I will write everything up step by step. We hunted around for Turkish-language resources and basically couldn’t find a thing, so we decided this is something we’d document ourselves. But first, we need to…

You might be asking, “What is Urban Sketchers Istanbul?” From the name we can at least guess it’s something that happens in Istanbul. So what is Urban Sketchers? Let me share their own description from Urban Sketchers Istanbul‘s blog: We’re a group of Istanbul residents who love to sketch. Thanks to social media we discovered each other and started taking sketch walks together around Istanbul….

Like everyone else, I’d done watercolour in a few primary-school lessons. Those were all the watercolours I’d ever done. The other day, while browsing Tumblr, I came across someone doing this kind of work as a speedart — i.e. sped up — and that’s what finally got me to pick up a brush. Note: there’s a difference between watercolour and gouache, but I’ll just say…