John writes – “I discovered this while searching the ‘Net today. Make a rubber band powered helicopter out of a business card? Wow! This sounds simply fantastic!” – Link & translated page. From the pages of MAKE: Building an Ornithopter – For millennia, men and women have studied birds, bats, and beetles, observing and experimenting, […]
Chris writes – “I just took this pic as I was walking down the street here in Palo Alto. This Maker has built an electric 3-wheel transport device, and he/she is charging it as it sits parked in the street! I don’t know who it is….” This thing is awesome. Ok, Makers – let’s see […]
The old Apple studio displays make excellent cases for putting a new computer inside, Toolman hacked up one pretty nicely, here are the photos, video and build notes… [via] – Link. Related: Nintendo Entertainment Center PC case mod… – Link. Commodore PET / CBM reto case mod – Link. Case Mods – The Ultimate List […]
If you’re in LA on 12/02 pop by and visit! – “Please join us Saturday Dec 2nd at 5:30pm for a very special meeting of Dorkbot SoCal to launch the new issue of MAKE magazine. Simon Penny (Director of UCI’s Arts Computation Engineering program) will speak on integrating interaction design, space design, structure design, mechanical […]
Nat writes – “We are all nerds at heart so why shouldn’t our socks reflect that? These knit patterns created by Alison Hansel for Magknits shows two cool patterns – Atari Breakout and the Apple logo. A great gift to make this holiday season for the techie in your life, even if that’s yourself!” [via] […]
Don’t need to smoke to want to build this automat duck, I’ve seen fun rolled up fortune cookie like cigarette messages and artwork the same size, Modern Mechanix 1938 – “YOU probably never saw a real live bird that looked like this one, but then you never saw a real live bird do what this […]
Abigail Percy has a great jewelry tutorial on Whip Up on how to make silhouette necklaces. This season animal shapes are all over the place and Abigal’s deer is a cute choice. You can also use the Fitzpattern bird stencils we’ve provided in a previous CRAFT Pattern podcast to create your necklace. Link.
