Welcome, Crafters, to our spookiest month of the year, where fun, creepy, and tasty-treat crafts abound. Of course the October theme is Halloween, and do we have a lot in store for you! Easy Halloween Mummy You’ve probably already noticed our head start on Halloween posts, like the Easy Halloween Mummy and Candy Corn Cupcakes. […]
The space geek, fan of Fall in me is pretty much giddy over the latest celebration of NASA’s rich history. In a special outreach titled Space Farm 7, seven of the nation’s top agritourism farms have been selected to celebrate and honor the U.S. space program in collaboration with NASA this fall. Each farm has […]
Adafruit writer and MAKE pal johngineer has prepared and published a 3D model of Captain Picard’s tea cup, based on images found at TREKPROPS.DE. I love the of using “Tea, Earl Grey, hot,” an image so often reached for to illustrate the idea of 3D-printing in general, as a benchmark for the state of the technology…
In this how-to video, Lucas Weakley walks you through the process of making paper rockets for the compressed air rocket launcher found in MAKE Volume 15. Based on his experience from making his own rockets, he offers a lot of great tips and tricks. The Compressed Air Rockets Kit is available in the Maker Shed if you’d like to get started launching your own rockets.
John over at the MAKE blog posted this edible piano by NYC Resistor members Astrida Valigorsky, Ranjit Bhatnagar, Mimi Hui, and Catarina Mota. As part of our experiments we realized that jello and fruit, which contain a lot of water, are conductive. Embedded in each jello/fruit key is a sterling silver pin (food safe) connected […]
Check out this quick way to add a durable grip to your favorite tool using heavy gauge wire and some heat shrink tubing.
Sébastien Bourdeauducq of /tmp/lab visited PWL, a “one-man vacuum tube laboratory” headed up by Aleksander Zawada. He starts the triode by assembling the grid. To do this, he takes a piece of nickel wire, and soldered a small spiral of molybdenum wire on it – one turn and one solder at a time. He uses […]
