Month: October 2009

High-visibility paracord luggage handle wrap

High-visibility paracord luggage handle wrap

I’d like to reassure everyone that Stormdrane is not paying me under the table. But public denials cost an extra $50 and he won’t pony up the dough. So you’re just gonna have to wonder. Seriously, I think I can’t stop clicking through his blog because I’m looking for a “practical” excuse to tie one of these awesome knots. So far, this is the best one I’ve found. I may actually have to cave in and buy some neon paracord.

Motion-activated “Jan in the Pan”

Motion-activated “Jan in the Pan”

Reader JC just submitted this fantastic haunted house prop to our Make: Halloween Contest 2009. It’s a recreation of the always-lovely female lead from 1962’s sci-fi camp classic The Brain That Wouldn’t Die, immortalized in 1993 as Mystery Science Theater 3000’s experiment 513 (and, arguably, before that by Steve Martin’s The Man with Two Brains).

“She won’t be doing any heavy lifting for awhile…”

SPARK Project #2, Post #4

SPARK Project #2, Post #4

Providence, Rhode Island is home to many larger than life characters. One that has special meaning for me, and is arguably one of the most iconic characters, is New England Pest Control’s giant blue mascot, Nibbles Woodaway. I’ve always found programming fun and interesting, but the true challenge for me is trying to figure out […]

Nikon Coolpix S1000pj teardown

Nikon Coolpix S1000pj teardown

Our friends over at iFixIt.com just couldn’t keep their screwdrivers and spudgers off of the new Coolpix S1000pj, the digital camera with a built-in video projector. They just had to find out how Nikon fit all that bleeding-edge tech into that tiny camera case. Here’s some of what they discovered in their testing and teardown: […]

Flashback: Graveyard Cake

This week’s flashback brings you more Halloween goodness excerpted from our Make: Halloween Special Edition, a collaboration between the editors of MAKE and CRAFT that came out back in August 2007. In the Frightful Feast section, our own Managing Editor Shawn Connally offered up a fun and easy Graveyard Cake that’ll have you treat or […]