Mikael Carlson builds/restores and flies these amazing old airplanes – “Mikael Carlson was born in 1959 and he has ever since childhood been most interested in aviation. Already at an early age he was a very skilful model airplane builder which eventually resulted in gold and silver medals at two consecutive World Championships for R/C […]
Mark Spear says, “My talented wife (Reva Spear) likes to make lovely flowers out of Tootsie Rolls and taffy while watching TV. These are allegedly to decorate cakes and pastries but are usually eaten first.” Here’s the how-to: 1) Start by breaking a tootsie roll into 5-6 pieces. 2) Flatten the bits into oval or […]
Here’s a gallery of artist Steven J. Backman’s toothpick art, pictured here, a yacht made from over 10,000 toothpicks and weighing in at 14lbs. It was two motors and is remote controlled – it took over 6 months to construct… [via] – Link. Related: Toothpick engineering – Link.
MAKE pal Mikest has posted some gorgeous start to finish photos of his homemade brass goggles – Link.
MAKE Flickr photo pool member MiniOnion painted Pocoyo at the bottom of his pool, nice work! – Link. MAKE something? Have something to share? Post your photos in the MAKE Flickr photo pool, we’re almost up to 2,000 members – join in!
Ever since I heard about Nitinol, a shape-changing metal alloy, I’ve been wanting to play with it. In this video, I make a completely functional, but completely unnecessary lightswitch, put together a nitinol robot kit, an inch-bot and have a robot race! I’m confident that you can figure out how to make cars and contraptions […]
This weekend it’s time for a robot race! Put together some robots and race them for fun. I started this week by learning about nitinol, which is a shape changing metal alloy made up of nickel and titanium. I did some brainstorming. What could you do with a wire that I can activate to make […]
