Roasting Pan Guitar Resonator
Shamus built this cool guitar using a flea-market aluminum roasting pan as the resonator body. Sounds good! Click play above to hear it sing at 1:50, or rewind to hear the build deets. [Thanks, Alan Dove!]
Year: 2011
Kinetic Sculpture Manipulates Rare Earth Magnets
Dave Johnson’s magnet machine has a lot of fascinating details: This machine manipulates small spherical rare earth magnets. slicing one at a time from the end of a long chain, moving it around a bit, then dropping it back to re-connect at the tail end of the chain. It also demonstrates a little snippet of […]
In the Maker Shed: Peggy 2 LED display kit
Peggy 2 is an updated version of the original Peggy light-emitting pegboard display. Version 2 adds simple animation capability and Arduino compatibility.
Make And Send The World’s Tiniest Photo Postcard
I’m a person who loves anything in miniature and really loves to get mail, so this latest project from Photojojo is a big winner in my book. Introducing the world’s smallest photo postcard. You can turn your photos into 1″x1/2″ confetti-sized wonders that you can even write on and mail to your favorite people. Get […]
AM Eye Candy: Swiss Cheese Scarf
Sean Ragan spotted this swiss cheese scarf blocking photo in the MAKE Flickr pool. Luscious!
How-To: Felt Birds
Get the pattern and how-to for these cute little felt birds over on Paper and String. They look like a great way to use up scraps of felt, ribbon and buttons, and can be made in to anything from a keychain to a brooch.
MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
Check out the coolest submissions to the MAKE Flickr pool from last week!