Hack Factory Cabaret is a new monthly community event in the style of the Chaos Computer Club’s Lightning Talks and Noisebridge’s 5 Minutes Of Fame. Our first event will be this Thursday (May 20) from 7-9pm and will be FREE to all and FUN so bring your friends. Preliminary line-up for this month: * The […]
By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics In 1995, I designed this hypothetical construction and posted a computer rendering of it online. It is called “Nailbanger’s Nightmare” because I thought it was far more complex than any carpenter would ever want to make. After fifteen years, I was surprised to receive an email from […]
Sew up this adorable reversible bag, now with a PDF pattern by Novita of very purple person. It looks like the perfect tote you can whip up for summer!
One of the group installations coming to this year’s Maker Faire Bay Area, taking place on May 22nd and 23rd at the San Mateo Fairgrounds, is M.T. Pockets Traveling Midway of Curiosities and Delights. A nostalgic throw-back to carnivals of old, this exhibit is a self-contained window into yesteryear, when the carnival would roll into […]
I love it when I can work with folks, of all ages, who love to sit down and try their hands at something new. The teens involved with the Detroit Public Library’s HYPE (Helping Young People Excel) program are just those types of folks. Handmade Detroit will be teaching some soon-to-be-sewers the tricks of the […]
For those who aren’t up on their tradecraft, a “dead drop” is a place where spies or other clandestine-y folks drop off items for later retrieval by other agents. A “dead drop spike” is a particularly ingenious little container devised for the purpose. Basically, it’s a hollow metal spike, with a threaded watertight closure at the top. You put your top-secret microfilm or whatever inside the spike, take it to your dead drop, and stomp it into the ground with your foot. Then you cover it up with a rock or a piece of trash or whatever. The lid has a pull-loop built into it, so that when your contact comes by later to clear the drop, he or she can grab the spike by the loop and yank it out of the ground again.
Make: Online reader Baz from Dublin, ireland, sent us this rad video of a low-tech
self-propelled lawnmower that’s guided by wrapping a string around a couple of posts so it mows a spiral of lawn.
