I love simple toys that are created with everyday household items, so these paper strip tops from Curious Kangaroos really strike my fancy. Playing with tops can actually be a nice little meditative break in your day, and a few of these on your desk would be great fun. [via Nerdstink]
Our friend Quinn Dunki has a benchtop power supply, but she wasn’t entirely satisfied with it. Quinn has needs. She made a list…
Nathan Pryor of Vancouver, WA, built this counting box for his son. My 4-year-old son loves counting and numbers, so I built him a dedicated counting box. Select a value from 1-10 with the rotary switch in the middle, then push the big green arcade button to add that to the total shown on the […]
I have a bunch of those Reader’s Digest and Time-Life build, repair, maintain handyman books. Way before MAKE and before the internet became an on-demand learning source for just about anything (back when the alt.science.repair USENET FAQ was the best resource out there), these sorts of books were a godsend if you wanted to learn the basics on building a deck, tiling a bathroom, fixing your own appliances.
Broadcasting shortly! Make: Live travels to our mothership, the MAKE headquarters in Sebastopol, CA. Intern Dan Spangler shows off his combustion cannon and launches a soda can and tennis ball across the back yard, and Max Heald shows us his in-progress electric wheelchair robot. Brookelynn Morris shows us her LED hula hoop and puts the staff to the hula challenge. Get a tour of the lab from Nick Raymond and meet more folks who make the magazine and projects you love.
What a resourceful and creative way to sculpt creatures out of old paper.
Back in MAKE Volume 22, I had the chance to interview musician, engineer, and fabricator Tristan Shone, the one-man industrial doom and drone metal band Author & Punisher. Tristan custom fabricates his Drone/Dub Machines from raw materials and uses open source circuitry. His machines are essentially beautiful MIDI controllers, drawing from the clean, polished lines […]
