Devin just submitted this video to our Make: Halloween Contest 2009. It’s a Tesla coil activated by a relay controlled by a microcontroller with a motion sensor. As Devin says, the coil is “very loud and startling,” and he intends to use it in a haunted house. He’s written an Instructable, too. Zap!
Those of you who appreciated my earlier post about Dudeney’s dissection will likely enjoy this table, commissioned by Joop Van Der Vaart from craftsman Jan de Koning, at Professor Greg N. Frederickson’s page at Purdue.
When I was back in junior high and high school, I was a collage addict. My friends and I were always making collages for each other, and I’m lucky enough to still have a few of them around. At the time, I was strictly a paper gal, but since then, I’ve been toying with the […]
Hungry for breakfast? Forget fast food, try following your childhood dreams and build a breakfast machine to make it for you! I’ll do it as soon as I can convince someone to clean it for me; anyone looking for an internship? The jam rolling unit really caught my eye. What would it take to turn […]
Here’s a neat sound sculpture made by The Books. The spoons are animated by playing sounds on a speaker mounted behind them.
This week in the CRAFT Flickr pool we saw: Wild Thing Hat by jessyellenberger (tutorial included), Crochet Megaphone (video, too) by WooWork, Softie Elk by astulabee, and Lazy Eye Patch by thirdpersonpossessive.
Here are my favorites from Craftzine this week!
