Remember those awesome color changing LEDs on a string? John has a video review of them, he writes – “I just uploaded a much better quality video of the Triklits set I bought from www.triklits.com a few weeks ago. First I talk about the programmable nature of the lights, then I talk about the built […]
Brass Goggles has a round up (to add to our round up) of more steam powered bicycles including “pete’s steam bike” wow! … – Link. Previous: Steam bicycles – Link. Steam powered motorcycle (photos) – Link. Steam archives on MAKE – Link.
Ever want to freeze a rose in liquid nitrogen and then smash it and catch the photograph of the rose just as it begins to shatter? Watch this video podcast to learn how! There’s still a little bit more weekend left to check out our latest MAKE weekend project! As always when you get our […]
Congrats to our MAKE & CRAFT pals Diana Eng, Emily Albinski and Audrey Roy for winning the Yahoo Hack Day competition, they created a device that takes pictures as you walk around and it uses the Flickr API to post the photos to a blog (here) – Link. Related: Yahoo Open Hack Day – Link. […]
Here’s a simple motor you can make, if you happen to have a large quantity of mercury laying around, which you probably don’t have, so check out how it works from our pals at Popular Science – “Mercury used to be lots of fun–before we knew that it could kill you. In this simple electric […]
Check out this mystery mesh VW [via] – Link. Related: Make made transportation – Link. Mod Your Rod: A collection of car hacks and mods – Link.
Tool using animal has a cute PVC based pumpkin spider Instructable… – “You’ll need 16 3′ sections of one inch pvc, 8 6″ pieces, 8 90deg elbows, and 8 45deg elbows. You can see from the pic how it’s assembeled the 6″ sections are shoved into the ground to support the legs, the pumpkin is […]
