Here’s a video of a nifty Exploding Piano Alarm Clock that was recently made in a graduate product design class at MIT. One of MAKE’s former interns, Jake McKenzie, was part of the team who created it. They based their project on the traditional piano drop held every spring off the MIT Baker House. The […]
Socks are the perfect portable knitting project especially with the onset of spring! Learn how to knit up your own socks with this pattern by Meredith Davey featured in CRAFT: 07. Meredith’s Colorado Rockies socks are now on display in the National Baseball Hall of Fame and was one of the winning entries in our […]
As much as I admire the Dremel-on-a-Makerbot projects… wow. [thanks, Brandon]
Yesterday I went to visit my wonderful mother-in-law. She is an herbalist, and literally every space of her land that can be a garden is a garden. Her name is DeAne Wilson, and she has taught me many of the things that I now know about plants. Several years ago she planted a veggie garden, […]
Brett and Sarah Peterson won Nokia’s Push N900 “Mod in the USA” competition with his bike dashboard: Way back in September I heard about the Nokia PUSH N900 global competition. I had been drooling over pictures and all the info I could find about the phone and thought, “Finally! This is my chance to get […]
Terrie Miller of Permie.net has put together a wonderful roundup of DIY garden projects using upcycled materials. Learn how to build a seedhouse using a window or glass door, make a garden work table from old pallets, grow 100lbs of potatoes in 4 square feet, and construct a raised garden bed from cut branches. Terrie […]
SOLO-TREC is outfitted with a series of tubes full of waxy phase-change materials. As the float encounters warm temperatures near the ocean’s surface, the materials expand; when it dives and the waters grow cooler, the materials contract. The expansion and contraction pressurizes oil, which drives a hydraulic motor. The motor generates electricity and recharges the batteries, which power a pump. The pump can change the float’s buoyancy, allowing it to move up and down the water column.
