With a piece of oak, some string and a cigar box, John Park creates a three-stringed guitar. The cigar box acts as the resonating soundboard for the instrument. John then wires the guitar to a buck-fifty cassette-player amp and makes it really rock.
In this Hidden Treasures segment, Mister Jalopy opens up his Chevy Camaro’s cassette player to show us the beauty and value of clear schematics for makers like him.
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Sunlight Poem Ji Yeon Songs one-day poem projector made of cardboard and sunlight.
Pedal-Powered Blender David Butcher outfits a bike with a generator that can run a blender.
Handmade Theremin- Lorin Parkers musical instrument is played without being touched.
Time-lapse Camera Jay Burlage hacks into a clock to create an inexpensive way of taking panning time-lapse photography.
Submit a video of your own project at makerchannel.org.
John Park hacks a Wii controller and turns it into a personal flight recorder that can sense and measure the stomach-churning G forces of roller coasters and other high-speed, high-risk activities.
In this Toolbox segment, William Gurstelle demonstrates the slick, back-cutting action of a super-sharp Japanese saw.
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Tesla coil guitar Steve Connor plays his tesla coil guitar amplifier
RFID implant Amal Graafstra opens locks and other devices with his hand-implanted RFID tag.
Solar-powered Gondola Reno Tondelli takes us on a spin with his Solar Powered Bicycle Gondola.
Submit a video of your own project at makerchannel.org.
Journey upstream with environmentalist Dan McCormick, a maker who crafts intricate watershed sculptures out of woven willow branches. Dan places his eco-art in gullies and riverbanks to help reduce erosion and filter out sediment and farm fertilizers that can clog streams and suffocate spawning salmon. And see other manmade structures built to help fish return to their origins.
Learn more about Dan McCormick at http://www.landviews.org/la2003/meaning-dm.html
