Maker Bhautik Joshi built this excellent tilt-shift lens using a T-mount adapter, rubber plumbing coupling, and a medium format lens found on eBay. It may not be as precise as a conventional tilt-shift lens, but it does produce an excellent image at a fraction of the cost.
Rubber-power.com has some really nice, quick and easy-to-build rubber-band-powered model planes designed by MAKE subscriber Darcy Whyte. There are free, downloadable instructions on the site and info and video on building, flying, and repairing these simple model planes. Model Airplane Power by Elastic Rubber Band
I got a nice response, both here and on Twitter, to my Lost Knowledge column on wire-wrapping. Folks had memories, both fond and otherwise, of wrapping circuits. In the comments, Tai Oliphant posted a link to his Z80 computer project, which was wire-wrapped (with over 350′ of 30-gauge wire!). Z80 Microcomputer Project More: Lost Knowledge: […]
Time lapse video of Michelle Wibowo’s making a baby cake.… via cwiggins.
We’ve missed our buddy I-Wei Huang, aka Crabfu, who’s been busy getting the hang of raising ShrimpFu (aka his adorable baby son). While he hasn’t been building any bots (at least that he’s showing us), he’s been keeping busy between diaper changes with painting on his iPhone. I love that you can see the painting […]
We hope you and your family are having fun learning how to solder. If you are, take some pictures and load them to the MAKE Flickr pool. The first five people who load family soldering pics and tag them “MAKEcation” will get a free Maker’s Notebook. To help give you some ideas for projects you […]
Rediscover the lost art of cable and wire organizing known as cable lacing.
