I’ve come across some pretty cool headphones, but most of them lack the mic and remote of the newer Apple earphones that come with the iPhone. This mod is pretty much what you’d expect, but sometimes a good visual cue helps trigger the creative process.
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…”
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 […]
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: […]
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 […]
Marie LeBaron of Make and Takes has a new ebook out called Monster Mania: Crafts for Little Monsters ($7). The ebook contains 70 pages of 15 all new crafts for kids. Each craft comes with a supply list, learning objectives, step by step instructions, and detailed photos. With projects like Monster Stew and Hairy Monster […]
Too lazy to actually get out and take pictures? Then you might want to check out Photosketch, an interesting research project by researchers at Tsinghua University.
