You might be aware that microwave ovens have hot and cold spots (thats why many of them have little turntables that spin around while your food heats), but have you ever wondered what they look like?
Here’s a simple costume idea for an adult/baby duo: a ventriloquist and a ventrioloquist dummy! The dapper suits with bow ties is the icing on the cake, but I think all you really need to pull this off is a creepy baby-sized wig and to draw lines straight down from the corners of Baby’s mouth. […]
The latest issue of MAKE, Volume 23, has the easiest plans yet for a machine that turns itself off, and does nothing else (except inspire a cult following). Flip the device’s toggle switch on and a wooden arm emerges, switches it back off, and then disappears inside again. The article was based on a runaway […]
ScanCam is a Norwegian semi-autonomous quadrotor drone that lives in a little mailbox-like home to keep it from the harsh elements and to recharge it. Botjunkie: The quadrotors can launch, recover, and recharge themselves at their huts (or “hangars” I guess), and when it snows (which I hear it doesn’t do once or twice a […]
Adam @ Make: Online writes: Low on funds after dropping serious coin on that Canon 5D Mark II outfit and need a simple softbox to diffuse a flash? If you find yourself in a similar situation, check out this papercraft softbox from maker Julian Schüngel. It’s the perfect accompaniment to the DIY LADIG cutout bounce […]
Anyone who’s traveled with homemade electronics, breadboarded circuits, mint tin projects, or other DIY tech, knows how unnerving it can be going through airport security. Sacha, of Chemhacker, writes: I just came back from traveling to the Open Science Summit with my hand-built Scanning Tunneling Microscope in tow — here’s how I got it to […]
No wonder engineering is so popular!
