Volume 8 of MAKE features pinball machine restoration in its Toys and Games section. In this Maker File, we visit the Lucky Ju Ju Pinball Arcadium in Alameda, California. Michael Schiess is the proprietor of Lucky Ju Ju, and a group of us went there to check out the place and take some photograph of […]
I am loving all the cool entries for this months Whiplash contest on Alt Crafts. Here’s another real cool submission by Karrie of Girl on Rocks, who basically unwound an old mixed cassette tape and knit it into this cool-looking iPod cozy. Wowza! Link.
Peter Green sent in his tiny mac portable mod, it’s a tablet too… – “Hi, here’s my latest MMP – it’s the WORLDS SMALLEST & LIGHTEST Mac Laptop/plamtop/UMPC made from a Mac Mini Core Solo 1.5!” – Link. Related: Case design – Link. Internal electronics – Link. More Mac mini mods – Link.
I am never able to wind my yarn into nice balls where you can easily pull from the center of the ball to knit. They end up rolling all over the place. Here’s a great photo step-by-step on how to wind up your skeins of yarn properly using a toilet paper roll as a base. […]
Get LoFi shows how to “circuit bending” a computer, nice! – “Computer Bending Yes, it is possible. I always wondered what would happen if you start circuit bending a computer. The obvious answer is that it will crash. Indeed it is not very good to cross pins on the motherboard. However this does not always […]
CuteCircuit’s Hug Shirt, which we first talked about here on the MAKE blog, has just been nominated by Time as one of the Best Inventions of 2006. The new design of the shirt was presented at Wired’s NextFest in NY last month and one of hte new features is that the shirt is completely washable! […]
Dangerously fun shows you how to make a boomerang from a sheet of plywood… – “Yes, it really is possible to make a boomerang that comes back when you throw it. Each side of a boomerang has an airfoil shape. These airfoils face opposite directions so the correct edge is always leading while the boomerang […]
