AFOL Guy Himber, whose innovative use of Lego elements has appeared in Make: Online twice before (links below), has done it again with this excellent, life-sized steampunk ray gun. If you like this, be sure to check out his similarly-themed Infinity Rifle. Lovely work as usual. More: Bionicle griffin makes fantastic use of biopunk parts […]
I found these two bikes in the MAKE Flickr pool: The top photo shows a folding bike with an “electric push trailer” — a $75 e-bike conversion kit turned into an electrically-powered trailer. Neat idea! The bottom photo shows a standard mountain bike that some maniac has hacked to run via gas engine. What have […]
CasaSugar has an exclusive two-part interview with HGTV Design Star winner Emily Henderson. I like these crafty design tips from Emily here: Anything can be a vase if it can hold water. I use jars, teacups, anything that’s watertight, for plants and flowers. When you’re shopping in thrift stores and flea markets that’s something to […]
Constrained Ball… People not only write with pen. Other than writing, often we draw lines with pen. Most time people use ruler to draw a straight line or free hand which results winding line. This invention is regarding a method to draw straight line without using ruler. Normally, ball point pen freely rolls in accordance […]
Announcing another Handmade Music, this Sunday 8/29! HANDMADE MUSIC Culturefix, 9 Clinton St., New York, NY 10002 Sunday, August 29 Open Party Event 7-9:30p FREE Handmade Music is a community get-together, Science Fair, noise-making happening, and party for people making things that make music. We return to NYC on Sunday, August 29 at 7p. Our […]
The winners of the Sublime Stitching Contest are in! I was really honored to be a judge for this contest. The other two judges were Keith Carallo of Fred Flare and Jamie Chalmers, aka Mr. XStitch. Let me tell you it was hard to pick the winners because everyone did such an amazing job! See […]
Hans, a maker from Trondheim, Norway, sent us a link to this Wimshurst Influence Machine he bought. He asked about the history of the device from the seller and found out that it was used in a grade school, from 1911 to 1951, and was owned by the principal. Nice job on the restoration: The […]
