How-To: Needle Felted Bowl
Make a soft and sweet bowl for your precious trinkets. Seehow to needle felt it over on Felt-o-Rama with Marigold of Hideous! Dreadful! Stinky!
Month: February 2011
22 Ways to Reuse an Altoids Tin
We’re big fans of Altoids tins here at MAKE, which is why we love this awesome round-up of 22 Manly Ways to Reuse an Altoids Tin by The Art of Manliness. Highlights include: a pinhole camera, an urban survival kit, and my favorite, the fireball shooter. If, after reading that, you still don’t know what […]
High Altitude Paper Airplanes
Project Space Planes is a publicity stunt, but a fun and interesting one at that. Launch 100 paper planes with a particular brand of memory cards containing messages sent in from people across the Internet on a high altitude weather balloon and see what happens. Well, it’s been a couple of weeks since they launched and results are still streaming in. Currently the list includes a number of unconfirmed reports of planes found in places like Germany, Australia, Russia, India, the Netherlands, California, Canada, and South Africa.
STEREO Reveals the Entire Sun (video)
The sun takes about 27 days to rotate once, so it was a challenge to guess what type of solar activity was happening until it was basically too late. The new STEREO satellite can now help us predict and view what’s going on around the sun all at once… Launched in October 2006, STEREO traces […]
Lego Servo Multiplexer
A NXT brick can control only three servos, but don’t let that limit you. This multiplexer — dating back to 2007, an oldie! — uses two servos to do the work of twelve, thanks to this clever homebrewed multiplexer.
Typestaches
Mustaches may be to 2011 what unicorns were to 2010 (or was it narwhals?) but we’re not quite over them yet. Especially when they come in 30 fabulous typographic flavors.
MAKE Volume 25: The Arduino Revolution!
I’m really excited about MAKE Volume 25, because we have a terrific 39-page special section about Arduino. If you don’t already know, Arduino is a electronics prototyping platform that allows you to quickly build interactivity into your projects. This microcontroller system allows you to connect different kinds of inputs (such as light sensors, motion sensors, […]
