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Skeeball Machine Made Entirely with K’Nex

Skeeball Machine Made Entirely with K’Nex

A full-size skeeball game took over a year to make, and is built entirely with K’Nex components.

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 iPod shoebox art enlarger

$2 iPod shoebox art enlarger

Using a shoebox, some convex lenses of varying focal length, and a bit of poster board maker manish15 has assembled an inexpensive art enlarger on the cheap. Similar to an epidioscope, the device projects an image onto a drawing surface.

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Make your own snail art car

Make your own snail art car

We’ve covered Jon Sarriugarte and Krysten Mate’s Golden Mean snail art car on the Make: Blog and in MAKE magazine before. But now, they’ve posted an Instructable of the build details so you can create one yourself! How many takers do you think they’ll have? I wished we lived in a world in which this, […]

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DIY plasma cutter

DIY plasma cutter

Even if you’re like me and never win them, you’ve got to love the huge contests on Instructables. I spent at least 3 hours last weekend Googling for ‘DIY plasma cutter’ and could only come up with cocktail-napkin drawings. This week, there’s a well-done homemade plasma cutter entry in the $20,000 Sears gift card contest. […]

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