Free Block Pattern
Molly Flanders is offering up this flowering snowball block template for all you sewers and quilters out there. Thanks, Molly!
Month: June 2011
New Alloy Becomes Magnetic on Heating
This video is short, and really pretty boring if you don’t know what’s going on. Shown is a chunk of new alloy that undergoes a phase change, at about 125C, from a nonmagnetic material to one that is strongly magnetic. If you bias the system with an additional, permanent magnet, heating the system past the transition temperature produces an electric current in a nearby coil, thereby converting heat to electricity.
Help RadioShack, Win $150 in Maker Shed Booty
RadioShack is looking to better understand the needs of makers/DIY hobbyists. As part of that effort, they’ve asked if we would run a brief survey on MAKE. They’d like to hear from you. It’s a brief survey, which will take about five minutes of your time, and as an incentive, we’ll be be giving away a $150 Maker Shed Gift Certificate, at random, to one respondent.
The Latest in Hobby Robotics 11
In this weeks episode of The Latest in Hobby Robotics, Andrew and
Frits are looking at some cool designs for home made robots.
Here are links related to the show:
Chris The Carpenters Steampunk robot:
http://letsmakerobots.com/node/27139
Wikipedia on steampunk:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk
Robot 2 by Axbri:
http://letsmakerobots.com/node/22431
Ant’s robots:
http://letsmakerobots.com/user/564/pages/robot
PetToyBot by mrkiss:
http://letsmakerobots.com/node/2225
Learn how to make a robot:
http://letsmakerobots.com/start
How-To: Steampunk Balancing Robot from Recycled Materials
By Scott Bedford Amaze your kids by transforming two old toilet rolls and a few other recycled bits and bobs into a cool steampunk-inspired robot. Amaze them even further by balancing your robot on the edge of a ruler, table, shelf, or even your finger. And then triple amaze them by rotating the arms and […]
Make: Live 6/22/11 — Photo and Video (video)
Make: Live episode 11 is all about photography and video. We take you on a behind-the-scenes tour and show how we put together Make: Live. Matt Griffin from MakerBot shows us how they make timelapse movies of 3D printers doing their thing Catch up on video and notes from the show here. Subscribe to the […]
How-To: Wall Garden from a Pallet
Garden_Pallet-Completed-430×300 How to Turn a Pallet into a Garden
