The Fire Piston Kit is a neat physics experiment based on the heat created when air is rapidly compressed. Bill Gurstelle, author of Backyard Ballistics and Barrage Garage, created this kit for us. If you were at Maker Faire you might have seen him demonstrating his kit in the Maker Shed. [Thanks Bill!] More about […]
What do you do when someone at work has a Desktop Onager? Maybe it’s time to get your own desktop Desktop Trebuchet and start a mini war. Or maybe you want to build one so you can hurl mini cows at any invading knights? Then again, that might not be a good idea since both […]
This Desktop Onager is constructed out of only wood and twine. That’s right, no metal parts here! These types of war machines were the predecessors to cannons and modern artillery. This desktop model uses the torsion skein for all of its power. Using this ancient power mechanism, it can launch the wooden projectiles up to […]
Because one can never have enough access to power. Idea: The Outlet Wall [Thanks, Alden!]
Happy Monday Crafters! We’ve got a special Twitter Giveaway today. Three lucky CRAFT Twitter followers will win a CRAFT T-Shirt. Start following us here @craft. We’ll announce the winner next Monday, July 6th. Good luck!
The ArduPilot from the Maker Shed is a full-featured autopilot based on the Arduino open-source hardware platform. It uses infrared (thermopile) sensors for stabilization and GPS for navigation. Requires a GPS module and an infrared XY sensor (not included). The autopilot handles both stabilization and navigation, eliminating the need for a separate stabilization system. It […]
Our good friend Dale Wheat has come up with yet another kit, the Wee Blinky. It’s tiny, it blinks, and it’s a great kit to hone your soldering skills on since it’s cheap too! If you were lucky enough to be at Maker Faire this year, you might have met Dale. He was there teaching […]
