Today's relatively crude home-test kits are tiny but potent symbols of The Way Things Are Going.
Working in a crude home lab, the 18-year-old English chemist William H. Perkin "was actually trying to synthesize quinine to help fight malaria," Ms. Kalivas said.
Months before its release, the original "Blair Witch Project" tantalized prospective audiences with the remote possibility that the film might be a crude home movie left behind by a group who disappeared without a trace.
This technically crude home movie, which won the grand jury prize for best world cinema documentary at the Sundance Film Festival this year, follows Mr. Brugger, a Danish journalist, and two Danish-Korean comedians on a Borat-like expedition to put on a slapstick performance in Pyongyang.
After sifting through a hundred years' worth of powdery "success literature," however, from forgotten volumes like C. B. C. Amicus's mid-19th-century "Hints on Life" to the crude home-correspondence courses of Dale Carnegie to the best-selling bromides of Stephen Covey, Hustad, a Minneapolitan turned New Yorker, may be forgiven for adopting precisely the opposite attitude.
Ween at the time was simply two old friends in their early 20's, Mickey Melchiondo and Aaron Freeman (nicknamed Dean and Gene Ween, respectively), who spent a lot of time in their crude home studio, hastily recording odes (at various tape speeds and in different musical styles) to mononucleosis, Mexican food and pumping gas.
These are crude home-made devices.
There was a lot of hype around 3D printing when the technology was commercialized for crude, home-based printers that could make simple, polymer figurines.
Iraqi officials have shown the BBC videos that they say confirm Islamic State militants are using chlorine gas in some crude home-made bombs.
When he returned, he was wearing the crude home-made goaltender mask that he had been using in practices.
