Natalie Freed, Jie Qi, and Adam Setapen gave me this pair of videos detailing their super cool Telescrapbook project. It’s a pair of semi-normal looking scrapbooks to which users can add sensor and actuator stickers when constructing pages. Manipulation of these stickers can then cause interesting things to happen in the corresponding pages of the […]
Craftster member, blupony808, took home top honors in the “Electrifying” challenge with this awesome plush angler fish. See how she put it together over on Craftster.
Brian Liloia documented his build of this round self-supporting roof structure in 2008, while living in Missouri. This type of self-supporting structure, in which each beam bears the weight of another, and has its weight born by yet another, and all arranged such the load is thus distributed ’round in a continuous cycle, is called a reciprocal frame. It requires at least three members, and you can build a simple working model with matchsticks. [via No Tech Magazine]
Sean @ MAKE writes: “What I look for in a project, more than any other single quality, is doing a lot with a little. This “wave machine” demo from the UK’s National STEM Centre, targeted to science teachers for classroom use, is a great example.”
The Make: Electronics Components Pack 1 includes all the parts you need to perform experiments 1-11 from our incredibly popular Make: Electronics book by Charles Platt.
Congratulations to Jacklyn of Jackson, New Jersey, winner of Susan Beal’s Modern Log Cabin Quilting. Thanks to everyone who entered! Be sure to follow along with the rest of Susan’s blog tour for more information on the book, and more ways to win a copy of your own.
Peer Kreuger loves his Lego models so much he builds specialized dollies and other camera mounts to take pictures of them. His latest, a Quadpod, looks great for recording in adverse conditions.
