How-To: Pneumatic pop-up Halloween screamer
Instructables user Back Roads just posted this tutorial describing the low-cost pneumatic system he hacked together to build this haunted house prop.
Year: 2009
Build iPhone apps with Flash
It would seem that Adobe has squeezed Flash onto the iPhone. It is not in its usual guise as a browser plugin, but rather as a method to build full-fledged apps downloadable from the iPhone App Store.
Build a drone synthesizer
Build an analog drone synth and signal processor
Stepper motor bike light generator
Over on DinoFab, Dean shows off his latest bike improvement, an LED light system that uses a generator built from an old printer stepper motor. He points readers to this article about how to generate electricity using steppers. Stepper Motor Powered Bike Light
Garrett Wade tool winners!
We’ve done the drawing for the winners of the tools that Garrett Wade so generously provided us with, namely a set of their Extra Heavy Duty Screwdrivers and one of their Push Drills. The winners are: Jonathan Fulton – Who gets the “tank screwdrivers” Matt Kaake – Who wins the push drill Congrats, fellas! Email […]
Ladyada gets EFF Pioneer Award!
We’re thrilled to announce that MAKE pal, and Advisory Board member, Limor Fried, aka Ladyada, has been honored with an 18th annual EFF Pioneer Award. Well-deserved, we say. Congrats, Limor! Here’s the little bio from the EFF announcement: A pioneer in the field of open-source hardware and software hacking, Ladyada helps the general public engineer […]
Baby Tuxedo Onesie
I had a number of formal weddings to go to this summer (and a few more to go!), and at first I wasn’t quite sure what to put my then-four-month-old in. A quick search on Etsy brought up some adorable tuxedo onesies. I couldn’t resist this one, although it would be fairly simple to whip […]