Breaking glass with sound...
Breaking glass with sound...
Ever feel like you are just cranking away and not getting anywhere in life? Well, at least with Blake Fall-Conroy's Minimum Wage Machine, you are guaranteed to get paid as long as you crank. The idea is that you generate [...]
Will Langford, the Tufts student who created printable shop glasses on his MakerBot and rendered Thom Yorke's head in 3D, has now printed a Sumbot chassis for an Arduino-driven sumo. Nice work, Will!
It's so cute!
Will's page on Thingiverse
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Fra Fondi, of HobbyMedia, sent us a link to this video, part 1 of a report on the recent Make: Tokyo gathering. The vid is in Japanese, but still fascinating to watch.
We get Dale Dougherty and Phil Torrone, they get a dude dressed up as a cowboy! I [...]
Apparently inspired by BBC's The Young Ones, Instructables user lemonie put together a tutorial on how to make your own VHS toaster oven. He includes the following amusing note about safety:
If I thought anyone would attempt this (and they shouldn't) I'd offer the following warnings:
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Regular laptop stand too boring for your taste? Check out the monster monster notebook stand instead. These are already pretty neat, but I think they would be 200% more awesome if the legs actually moved, turning the laptop into a creepy monster robot. Anyone want to [...]
I would like this.
Need to generate a high-quality sine wave using an Arduino? The folks over at Lab3 explain how it's done with their Arduino DDS Sinewave Generator. Using direct digital synthesis and a Chebyshev filter, they claim that the system can produce sine waves from to [...]
The CrunchPad, named Popular Mechanic's 10 most brilliant products of the year (although it never came out) is not happening. Mike writes -
I bet [...]
After checking out a few projects involving IR heart monitors, I decided to have a go at the interface myself. Seen above are the results of my first experimentation with pulse oximetry. Getting the setup up and running satisfactorily required a bit more time and tinkering than I'd' [...]
MAKE subscriber Dan Wagoner points out this well-executed remake of Biegert & Funk's Qlock2 - a clock that displays the time in conversational sentence format. Flickr member Ruud Burger gives a quick rundown of his project -Remake of the QlockTwo by Biegert [...]
by Eric Archer
Straight from the 1890s to the 1980s, I would like to suggest any of these fun bits of retro technology for the tinkerers, makers, and geeks on your shopping list. I've included plenty of affordable items to help you spread the good cheer. Some are kits' [...]
I branded myself, about 8 years ago, with a cookie cutter and a blowtorch. The first time my dad saw it, he asked if someone had held me down and mutilated me in some kind of gangland reprisal. Dad thinks my life is a lot more exciting [...]
The coconut is nature's Altoid tin. If there was one accessory that could drastically improve the coconut it would have to be the zipper. On Lamu Island, off the coast of Kenya, it would appear that they've developed a decent trade around this concept. [via' [...]
Almost everyone has heard of a chemistry set. But until the Physics workshop kit was introduced, a physics set was almost unheard of. Physics is an essential science for everyone, and this kit provides a comprehensive explanation of mechanical physics. You will learn the [...]
We know that people fall in love with their robots, and that's a fine thing, and we know the Keepon is particularly designed to create emotional bonds. But Keepon meatballs? Keepon broccoli? Hey, whatever floats your boat. I DO love the art of Bento, ever since I [...]
From Etsy seller SteamedGlass. The one pictured has already sold. [via Boing Boing]
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Lightbulb terraria
We hope you've been enjoying our lineup of gift guides so far this year, and there's much more to come! I wanted to let you know that we're writing lots of gift guides on CRAFT, too! Check out Crafty Tools, For the Foodie, [...]
Over the past few years, I have been fascinated by this Halo armor project by Michael aka Vrogy. The piece that first caught my eye was his M6G pistol made of foam. He's been posting to the MAKE Flickr pool for quite a while, allowing [...]
MARIO BASANOV & VIDIS feat JAZZU - I'll be gone. More videos using instrumentation please.
We blogged about one of Steve's cameras back in 2007. Looks like he's completed at least one more since then, and there's a group of four presented on his website. Really beautiful work. [Thanks, Billy Baque!]
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MAKE subscriber bumpercrop writes in to share this excellent Harry Potter-inspired whereabout clock, The Magic Clock. In the story, the clock is a magical item with hands that show the location of [...]
There's been a bunch of great music-related kits released recently, just in time for gift-giving season. Add those to an already strong list of tried and true faves, and you've got yourself a lot of options for the sonic experimenter this year. Read on for the rundown -
Apple just released some more info on their "LP" and "Extras" format. This is one to watch. I really think the LP and "Extra" format is perfect for learning applications, and best of all it could be delivered via iTunes. MAKE is one of [...]
Until they make Black Friday a goth holiday, where you dress all in black, sit around listening to Bauhaus and Bella Morte, and stare at the floor, Black Friday will scare me. Yes, the running of the shoppers scares me MORE than goth.
As we've pointed out before,' [...]
Work on your bicycle the simple way with this inexpensive and easy to build bike stand.
Thanks go to Shaun Wilson for the original article in MAKE, Volume 18.
To download The Bike Repair Stand video click here and subscribe in [...]
Work on your bicycle the easy way with this inexpensive and easy to build bike stand.
Thanks go to Shaun Wilson for the original article in MAKE, Volume 18.
View the PDF of this project. and then subscribe to [...]
Forget Black Friday, 3am sales, and long lines of unhappy people buying giant flatscreen TVs, it's time to MAKE something this holiday season! Impress your loved ones with a truly special gift from the heart, not from a store. Spend the day after Thanksgiving with your family and' [...]
With the Fuel Cell X7 kit you can assemble and experiment with a unique reversible hydrogen Fuel Cell. This fuel cell kit provides a playful introduction to one of the most significant technologies of the 21st Century. With this kit you can build a model [...]
Taking an Open-Source Approach to Hardware @ WSJ.com...
A reader named Jim from Arizona sent us an email a while back about his nine year old son, Schuyler, aka "Doctor Professor," who wanted to join the Make: Money program to fund his DIY, robotics, and electronics projects. At nine, the kid is already teaching Arduino to 4-18 [...]
Want to get some hacking in after your Thanksgiving feast? Here are some fine maker events to check out, from The Maker Events Calendar. Wish your event was on the list? Add it to the calendar!
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Ever since you made one of those turkeys out of an outline of your hand in kindergarten, you've probably been aware of the fact that Thanksgiving might not be the preeminent maker's holiday. Unless your forte is food. Or turkey papercraft.
But being thankful, taking stock of' [...]
Sneak Preview: MoMA’s Tim Burton Retrospective @ Vulture
Kari Byron is currently Twittering live during the MythBusters epidode they're airing tonight.
MythBusters Official on Twitter
From MAKE magazine:
Want to know how to build a hydrogen rocket? How about a laser light show in a lunchbox? Or a simple remote-controlled videocam' [...]
With the Thanksgiving holiday nearly upon us here in the States, I suspect there will be a lot of beer drinking and watching television happening over the long weekend. For those of us who know that life is not a spectator sport, there's this week's flashback from [...]
Ian Lesnet, who used to write for Hack A Day, did the Bus Pirate project, and now runs Dangerous Prototypes, has this cool little hackable LED holiday card/ornament (don't tell Adafruit). The ATtiny13A-driven card comes in two flavors, an already-assembled version,' [...]
In the Make: Online Toolbox, we focus mainly on tools that fly under the radar of more conventional tool coverage: in-depth tool-making projects, strange or specialty tools unique to a trade or craft that can be useful elsewhere, tools and techniques you may not know about, but [...]
Interesting article over on New Scientist about Erin Rapacki's design for a "low-cost" robot that can be used by the wheelchair-bound to grip, turn, and push or pull on most kinds of doorknobs. Maybe my sense of how much this sort of thing should cost is [...]
Jim Grisanzio went to the Make: Tokyo Fall 2009 meeting and took some gorgeous photos of the event. For more, check out the Flickr sets by Yoshikawa Hiroyuki and whaleforset. Looks like it was fun! [Thanks Dale!]
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My first introduction to 3D modelling, way back in 1999, was ray-tracing with the classic freeware Persistence of Vision (POV-Ray) package. The whole point of POV-Ray was (and is) to program a virtual 3D scene that can be rendered into still images very slowly, but in [...]
What's better for a holiday gift then LEDs? More LEDs! Trick out your festivities with these blinky kits!
MiniPOV Kit ($18)
The canonical LED project, this persistence of vision (POV) kit spells out a message when you shake it. Perfect for someone learning to [...]
From the MAKE Flickr pool
Some Nixie tube eye candy courtesy of the ArduiNIX shield. More on its usage with Arduino over at Flock of Butterflies.
Wish I'd thought of this gag first. The USB pet rock from ThinkGeek has all the functionality of the original pet rock, but is USB compatible.
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For those bored by the portability of thumb drives, a 14GB furniture set designed to encourage data sharing -The sofas were made by creative design studio Cabracega for last year's International Festival for the Post-Digital Creation Culture (OFFF). As you can see (you'll have to squint' [...]
