Intern’s Corner

Intern’s Corner: DIY LED yo-yo side caps

Intern’s Corner: DIY LED yo-yo side caps

Every other week, MAKE’s awesome interns tell about the projects they’re building in the Make: Labs, the trouble they’ve gotten into, and what they’ll make next. By Eric Chu, engineering intern There aren’t many low-budget ways to customize one’s yo-yo. The most common ones are either painting or dyeing, but they’re limited: paint chips off […]

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Intern’s Corner: Cigar Box Guitar bloopers

Intern’s Corner: Cigar Box Guitar bloopers

Every other week, MAKE’s awesome interns tell about the projects they’re building in the Make: Labs, the trouble they’ve gotten into, and what they’ll make next. By Meara O’Reilly, projects intern I’ve been tinkering with the electronics on various cigar box guitars for a while, but I’d never had the chance to build one from […]

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Intern’s Corner: Test-firing the HHO rocket

Intern’s Corner: Test-firing the HHO rocket

Every other week, MAKE’s awesome interns tell about the projects they’re building in the Make: Labs, the trouble they’ve gotten into, and what they’ll make next. By Steven Lemos, engineering intern Making the Hydrogen-Oxygen Bottle Rocket (that Adam Savage is posing with on the cover of the new MAKE, Volume 20) was a pretty basic […]

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Intern’s Corner: Making Makey’s “stretchy” body in Inventor

Intern’s Corner: Making Makey’s “stretchy” body in Inventor

Every other week, MAKE’s awesome interns tell about the projects they’re building in the Make: Labs, the trouble they’ve gotten into, and what they’ll make next. By Kris Magri, engineering intern How I designed Makey, Part II: Creating the “stretchy” robot body in Inventor When designing Makey the Robot for MAKE, Volume 19, I ran […]

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Intern’s Corner: How I designed Makey the robot

Intern’s Corner: How I designed Makey the robot

Every other week, MAKE’s awesome interns tell about the projects they’re building in the Make: Labs, the trouble they’ve gotten into, and what they’ll make next. By Kris Magri, engineering intern Part I: The First Design This summer I was given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make a robot for the pages of MAKE Magazine (Volume […]

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Intern’s Corner: My robot of mass destruction

Intern’s Corner: My robot of mass destruction

Every other week, MAKE’s awesome interns tell about the projects they’re building in the Make: Labs, the trouble they’ve gotten into, and what they’ll make next. By Eric Chu, engineering intern Let’s admit it. We’ve all had thoughts of building our own robot of mass destruction. Well, I was able to do just that for […]

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