Weekend Project: Mint Tin Amp
Build a powerful pocket amplifier for your headphones and put it in a “curiously strong” minty case.
Month: January 2009
Weekend Project: Sonic Boom Bullwhip
Have you ever broken the sound barrier? It’s easier than you think. You just need a good bullwhip,
which converts arm movement into supersonic speed and triggers a sonic boom called a whip crack.
NOTE: Robert Dante broke the World Record for the Most Bullwhip cracks in one minute: 254, one month after this video was produced
Weekend Project: New Life For Old Zip Drives
The good old Zip Drive introduced by Iomega in late 1994 served it’s purpose as a medium-capacity removable disk storage system until obsolescence kicked in as it was replaced by flash drives as well as rewritable CDs and DVDs. Here are a few things you can do to give new life to that outdated drive.
Weekend Project: Scanner Camera
Turn a scanner into a camera that takes some pretty wild photos. An easy way to have fun with an old scanner!
Weekend Project: How to Make a Vortex Cannon
Shoot rings of smoke across the room with a Vortex Cannon!
Weekend Project: Make a Spiderman Gun!
Modify a hot glue gun and shoot streams of sticky web goo all over your haunted house!
How-to Tuesday: Animated Ghost Kit
In the spirit of Halloween I made the Animated Ghost Kit from the Maker SHED. It’s a fun little project. Read more about it at makezine.com