Brad made a snowcovered slope with his own DIY snowmaking rig. In his set notes, he shares some resources and other links. How is your Snow Geekery coming along? What have you made to take advantage of the cold weather? Add your ideas to the comments, and contribute your photos and video to the MAKE […]
Marie at Make and Takes shares some of her ideas and projects she used to celebrate at her son’s Star Wars birthday party. I love this clever Death Star piñata – made from a store -bought soccer ball piñata – and the simple light-saber cupcake display.
Todd Wiley writes to us: We’re starting up a co-op hacker space in Lexington, KY. Were going to have a brief planning meeting this Thursday, 7PM, at Common Grounds (343 East High Street). I hope other area makers will come out and pitch in. I’ll likely be keeping information flowing on twitter.com/xtoddx. Common Grounds
On the second episode of Make: television I showed how to build an air cannon (Burrito Blaster) using PVC pipe and a sprinkler valve. The valve is electronically triggered, using three 9V batteries to activate a solenoid. But what’s actually going on inside to allow a tiny solenoid to hold back and then release a […]
ConsciousFlesh useless projects is a site for (mainly) retro-tech projects such as nixie tube clocks, Tesla coils, Jacob’s ladders, tabletop ballista, and steampunk casemods. Seen above are a Jacob’s ladder, a wood- and brass-cased thumbdrive, a wooden computer casemod with a vacuum tube power indicator, a USB switch with a nixie selection indicator, and a […]
In order to investigate the effectiveness of non-traditional heatsinks on the TO-220 component package, Warren tested out several approaches with pennies and even a paperclip. In a recent thread on Head-Fi, someone asked how well a paperclip would work for heat-sinking a TO-220 part. Much speculation ensued (much of it from your humble author), including […]
Holy moly! Check out these beautiful custom shelves Stephen and Shauna of Somethings Hiding in Here built for their loft apartment. You can see more photos of their super DIY-friendly abode on Rearranged Design.
