Month: August 2010

How-To: Perforated pizza peel

How-To: Perforated pizza peel

Mike Senese writes: The idea behind a perforated peel is that it reduces the amount of flour that gets underneath the dough when placing it in the oven (too much flour will brown up and taste bitter), and helps keep things from sticking by reducing the amount of friction underneath the dough. I discovered the […]

Weekly Make: Projects round-up

Weekly Make: Projects round-up

Have you created an account on Make: Projects yet? Have you perused our growing library of projects, techniques, and primer articles? It includes original projects from us, projects from the magazine and Make: Online, and contributions from the greater maker community. Thanks to everyone who’s contributed so far. We need your involvement to make this […]

Lego “Empire Strikes Back” chess set

Lego “Empire Strikes Back” chess set

Brandon Griffith of Los Angeles’ Lego User Group LUGOLA built this mind-boggling Lego chess set with the pieces depicting characters and scenes from Episode V. My favorites are the mini dioramas detailing the bishops: bounty hunters and Han-in-carbonite for the Empire, Chewie w/busted C3-PO and Lando with his Bespin cronies for the Rebel Alliance. The […]

Mini arcade machine

Marcelo Souza of São Paulo, Brazil, dropped us a note to share his cool tabletop arcade machine emulator. I’ve spent the last Months building this MiniArcade. I’ve made 2 Videos of it. One of the process and one of the GamePlay. It has a unique optical Sensor to get the coin Credits, develped by me […]