Origami Rubik’s cube…
Here’s an incredible origami Rubik’s cube, along with other paper art from artist Tomohiro TACHI – [via] – Link. Related: TT’s Origami Page – Link.
Month: October 2006
Altoid tin pocket thumb piano
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Yapruder has a great gallery of thumb pianos, pictured here – one made from an Altoids tin… “Pocket thumb piano using Altoid tin and street sweeper bristle tines. My very first foray into plucked idiophone construction. Circa 1989.” – Link. Related: Kalimba mbira sansa likembe thumbpiano lamellaphone (photo set) – […]
Amateur radiation detection and experimentation
Chris Smolinski of Black Cat Systems has an article on The Citizen Scientist detailing some of the experiments with his GM-10 and GM-45 geiger counter radiation detectors. I use(d) one of these on planes to detect the different levels of radiation as we flew higher or lower, fun stuff… – Link. Related: Black Cat Systems […]
Weekend Project Podcast: Shadow Puppet Monsters
Halloween is coming and it’s time to get creative and make some monsters that will do your bidding. In this video, you’ll learn how to use paper and polycarbonate (lexan) to make shadow puppets. Then you’ll learn how to make a shadow theater. If you make a puppet show, make sure to take pictures and […]
Shadow Puppet Making Instructions
Download the pdf instructions so that you can print out while you work on your puppets!
LEGO ice cube trays!
Wow, check out these dishwasher safe, silicone, 10 brick LEGO ice cube trays, $7.99. Someone is totally going to make a crazy huge LEGO ice sculpture with these, and we’ll dutifully post it here!… [via] – Link. Related: LEGO projects on MAKE – Link & archives.
HOW TO – Make a LED Dot-Matrix display
Pinski1 has a great Instructable in the MAKE group on building a LED display… – “This is a simple HOW-TO make your own personalised LED Dot-Matrix display. I will be adding the complete program with an explaination to light the LEDs with. It’s also rather hackable, you can change it to suit yourself. I decieded […]