Exploring the History of Great Ideas with Make: Inventions
We revisit the wonderful Make: Inventions video series with Steve Hoefer
Continue ReadingWe revisit the wonderful Make: Inventions video series with Steve Hoefer
Continue ReadingIn this episode, we look at the pin tumbler lock, the most popular, enduring lock design of the last 150 years
Continue ReadingIn this Make: Inventions, Steve builds an elevator and reenacts the death-defying stunt that Elisha Otis performed at the 1854 World’s Fair.
Continue ReadingIn this episode of Make: Inventions, Steve builds Morse’s original automated transmitter as well as a gravity-driven receiver that records Morse coded message to paper
Continue ReadingIn this episode of Make: Inventions, Steve makes an airbag system that can detect a crash and deploy safely in 1/20th of a second.
Continue ReadingOn this Make: Inventions, we construct three different can opener designs, and put them to the test
Continue ReadingIn his first episode of Make: Inventions, Steve Hoefer takes a look at the Etch A Sketch, the enduring kids toy invented by Andre Cassagnes
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