Rob Nance
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Nellie Bly Smoker
Make a hot/cold food smoker from a 55-gallon steel drum.
In
Projects
from MAKE:
32: Design for Makers page 94
Fetch-O-Matic
Build your own automatic tennis ball
launcher for dogs.
From MAKE:
31: Punk Science page 98
Traditional Cigar Box Guitar
Hand-rolled music.
In
Music
from MAKE:
schoolsout: School's Out page 48
The Towel
Build a robust R/C flying-wing airplane that's fun to fly and great to learn on.
From MAKE:
30: Smarter Homes page 82
Tiny Wanderer
Starter robot autonomously navigates with a $2 microcontroller.
From MAKE:
29: DIY Superhuman page 88
Geiger Counter
This radiation detector clicks, flashes, logs radioactivity levels, and shares
its data with the world.
From MAKE:
29: DIY Superhuman page 100
Gigantic Bubble Generator
Arduino-controlled Bubblebot blows enormous, undulating soap bubbles.
From MAKE:
28: Toys and Games page 94
PS/2/You
Go-anywhere, instantly updatable glowing digital message board.
From MAKE:
27: Robots page 92
Secret Knock Gumball Machine
Make a cute candy vending machine that only dispenses treats when you knock the secret rhythm on its front panel.
From MAKE:
25: Microcontrollers and Arduino page 92
Stroboscope
Make a mechanical strobe with a toy motor and construction paper, pair it with a digital SLR camera, and take stunning photographs of objects in motion.
From MAKE:
24: Space page 90
The Most Useless Machine
Make a machine that, when you flip the switch on, an arm reaches out of a door to turn the switch back off.
From MAKE:
23: Gadgets page 94
Traditional Cigar Box Guitar
Build this 3-string instrument that requires a minimum of tools and parts, yet sounds great.
From MAKE:
21: Desktop Manufacturing page 76
The Autophenakistoscope
Motorize a 19th-century parlor novelty, and keep its frames synched to an LED strobe by using a sensor and an Arduino microcontroller.
From MAKE:
20: For Kids of All Ages page 100
The Make: Mech
Mr. Roboto: Cut and fold your own paper bot!
From MAKE:
19: Robots page 45










