Year: 2007

Solder your own wine charms

Solder your own wine charms

Windell writes – Here is how you can put together your own extra-snazzy wine charms out of electronic components. They look great, are easy to make, cost next to nothing, and make great conversation pieces. For an added bonus, you can solder them in place, making them semi-permanent yet easily removable. Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories […]

Surprising tests with household ammonia

Surprising tests with household ammonia

Some fun experiments to extend your knowledge with your home laboratory, from Popular Science 1933 – Simple Experiments and Home-made Apparatus Extend Your Knowledge and Speed the Work You Can Accomplish in Your Own Laboratory It is surprising what the amateur chemist can do with a fifteen-cent bottle of ordinary household ammonia. Being a mixture […]

MAKE Fest: Realtimelapse

Derek visited MAKE fest with a pole-mounted camera that captured video of the event and he processed it to create a time-lapse video in real-time at the event and here as an archive – The Mobile Camera Tower at the Make Magazine event at etech2007. People seemed to admire our duct tape design strategies and […]

Impatient hand paper kit

Impatient hand paper kit

This looks like a great paper kit, it taps its fingers as you turn the crank! Pure distilled impatience, turn the handle and listen to the tappety-tap of impatient finger rapping! Now pre-cut and pre-creased! Simply pop out the pieces and glue together. Complete step-by-step ifully illustrated instructions are provided. IMPATIENCE PAPER ANIMATION KIT – […]