Steampunk Nixie Tester
Flickr user Blue_Metal built this neat looking steampunk nixie tester, using a Microchip PIC controller and 74141 IC tester.
Month: April 2010
Skip the Flowers with a Fern Wedding Bouquet
I am obsessed with all flowers. I love peonies, roses, tiger lillies, wildflowers, and orchids equally, and when faced with the decision to choose just a few for my wedding, I balked. My taste in flowers changes from moment to moment, and I truly couldn’t play favorites. So, to avoid conflict, I skipped them all. […]
Compressed-air pinewood derby car
MAKE subscriber sliptonic wrote in with his enhanced pinewood derby car: I built this car for the open class of my son’s Cubscout pinewood derby race. It uses a 9V solenoid to release pressure from a PET bottle. I won, despite a minor design flaw. The flaw being that the bottle didn’t fit under the […]
How-To: LEDs Inside Sea Urchins
These LED sea urchins would make great party decor or even night lights! Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories shows us how to wire up this super-simple (two parts!) circuit. More: Limpet Shell Electronics
CoasterBot experimentation vids
I love the extent to which people are… er… thinking outside the bot in pursuing ideas beyond the standard layered cake approach to CDbots. In the first vid above, YouTube member eschulma shows a folding three-CD design using one full-size CD, two mini-CDs, and two attachment points, to create a folding CD assembly. Fascinated to […]
Spoon Garden Markers
I’ve seen spoon jewelry and napkin rings, but these spoon garden markers are so charming! I love the hand-stamped lettering and the mixture of spoon shapes. Who would have thought that the spoon’s curve would flatten so nicely as to make a perfect place for words! (I must admit a giggle though when I saw […]
Ana Kraš Lamps
I am thoroughly in love with the simple forms and retro style of Serbian designer Ana Kraš and her beautiful lamps. Her handmade Bonbon series attires steel wire frames with colorful knit yarns, while the M Lamp remains naked, waiting for you to dress it up in a garment lampshade. (The M Lamp was inspired […]
