Year: 2009

Weekend Project: $10 Pseudoscope

Build an amazing optical toy that plays tricks on your brain. Thanks go to Rob Hartmann for the original article in MAKE, Volume 05. To download The $10 Pseudoscope MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete $10 Pseudoscope article in MAKE, Volume 05 “$10 Pseudoscope” and you can see that in […]

Beam music in the attic

Bruno Mathez’s striking experiment with sound and light, Beam Music – What you’re seeing is a dark attic space in which the frames of wood and the pipes are being lit by a very precise ray of light, giving us the illusion that the light comes from inside the object. Each lit object has its […]

Make: television Episode 8

We journey upstream with environmentalist Dan McCormick, a maker who crafts intricate watershed sculptures out of woven willow. In the Workshop, John Park shows how to build lively and inexpensive miniature robots. Mister Jalopy reveals the hidden treasures of his “Compact Childhood Museum.” The Maker Channel segment features French fries shot from a spud gun, […]