Lanezga writes – “Polaris is a lamp for shared rooms that can vary the light intensity by changing it’s height depending on the needs of the users. The three lower cylinders have three light bulbs and their intensity can be changed by pulling or pushing the three upper cylinders. Them three can work independently depending […]
Speaking of IKEA… Here’s a simple bag project from the MAKE Flickr CRAFT pool – “The IKEABagHack is a hack of the famous IEAK bags that serve as shopping baskets inside IKEA stores. Outside the stores these bags are widely used by young people to transport great amounts of laundry and/or emtpy bottles. The basic […]
If all goes well, tonight MAKE will be at Thunderdome in the bay area, “…grudge matches take center stage in a 40′ battle dome, with fighters suspended in our one-of-a-kind bungee harnesses straight out of Mad Max. – Two Makers enter, one Maker leaves! Link.
This is getting out of control – “What happens when you combine 200 liters of Diet Coke and over 500 Mentos mints? It’s amazing and completely insane. The first part of this video demonstrates a simple geyser, and the second part shows just how extreme it can get. Over one hundred jets of soda fly […]
Art writes – “A man is planning to shoot himself 20 miles into the air from what might be the world’s largest crossbow (24 feet) while sitting on a homemade rocket. The project, code name,R.U.S.H (RAPID UP SUPER HIGH) uses rockets that provide up 1,350 pounds of thrust and a comfortable 10 Gs.” [via] – […]
Have your pipe dreams come true and make PVC instruments like the ones the Blue Man group uses, thanks K-milo! – Link. Related: PVC projects – Link.
Sspence writes – “We built a 1000 watt wind turbine to help charge the battery bank that powers our offgrid home. It’s a permanent magnet alternator, generating 3 phase ac, rectified to dc, and fed to a charge controller. The magnets spin with the wind, the coils are fixed, so no brushes or slip rings […]
