How-To: Make a pneumatic grave-escaping ghoul
Interesting video tutorial from YouTuber casafear1 showing how to create a pneumatically actuated zombie “ground-breaker.”
Month: September 2009
Spider Silk Weaving
This gorgeous textile is an 11-foot-long weaving made from spider silk, specifically the golden orb spider of Madagascar. The story of how it was made is fascinating and well worth reading (a few tidbits: the saffron color is the undyed color of the spider silk, the threads have five times the strength of steel by weight, and it took more than one million spiders to make the cloth).
Mark Hoekstra Award
One year ago Sunday, we learned of the sad death of MAKE Contributor and GEEK Technique blogger Mark Hoekstra. Only 34 years old, Mark had a heart attack while riding his bike. The maker/hardware hacking world misses him and the fun stuff he used to put up on his site. To mark the first anniversary […]
How-To: Refresh Your Yarn Scraps with Braiding
I can easily figure out ways to use a half a skein of this and a half a skein of that, but it’s really those last 2 yards that leave me stumped. Today I’m going to show you how by braiding yarn, you can refresh the life of your yarn scraps! And of course some […]
Felt Mustaches at the Handcar Regatta
Known to those in the know as the Handcar Regatta, the eclectic steampunk-styled event is centered around a wild race down the train tracks. Teams with hand built cars will push their limits competing for the prize and all the glory.
Wearable eyeball sees what you can’t
This conceptual sensory augmentation device is one of the creepier ones I’ve seen, I think because it seems to have a mind of it’s own. The Miruko wearable eyeball attaches to your body, and continually scans for monsters that only it can see.
Frankenstein, an all-tube home theater system
What could be better than a tube amplifier? How about an entire surround sound system built out of tubes!
