In response to Phillip’s post about the boattail racer car models, MAKE subscriber Dan Bishop pointed us to the machined metal speedsters that he produces and sells. Dan Bishop – Speedster More: Boattail Racer – Luxury pinewood derby cars
Diane Gilleland shows us how to prep and cook fava beans in this adorable video blog entry.
I’m a huge fan of Laura Wilson’s flip dolls (her St. George and the Dragon makes me swoon!) and I love this Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf flip doll. She’s offering 300 free downloads of the pattern and there are still some available!
>The steps outlined here will show you how to modify a standard Magic 8 Ball to replace the normal message icosahedron with a OLED screen, and how to add wireless microcontroller, and accelerometer. The screen is submersed in the normal Magic 8 Ball goo so that all the original aesthetics are preserved. The messages can be reprogrammed wirelessly without having to open the 8 Ball. The accelerometer detects when the 8 Ball is in use (e.g. tipped from resting to looking through the Magic Hole) and signals the microcontroller to turn on screen and fade in the messages.
Congratulations to Denise, the winner of Wedding Belles, Ideas and Inspiration from Island Brides.
In the Make: Online Toolbox, we focus mainly on tools that fly under the radar of more conventional tool coverage: in-depth tool-making projects, strange, or specialty tools unique to a trade or craft that can be useful elsewhere, tools and techniques you may not know about, but once you do, and incorporate them into your […]
To make it easier to lock up, design student Kevin Scott built a collapsible bicycle that can be wrapped around a pole and secured with a normal bike lock
