Special effects specialist Edwin Wise has contributed several projects to the pages of MAKE over the years, including the classic animatronic Flying Crank Ghost, the sound wave visualizing Chladni Plate, and the PVC air cannon Boom Stick, to name a few.
Natalia Buckley is a hacker, designer, and creative technologist. She’s originally from Poland and now live in Brighton on England’s south coast, a city famed for its appetite for experimentation. “I’m just making speculative things, that don’t necessarily fully exist in the real world, but help us learn something,” she says. “I’m a social observer. The sole reason I make things is to learn something about other people. Because I find other people fascinating. My work in technology is basically about people. People constantly interact with technology and I can make technology to watch them do stuff!”
This fantastic cooler is pictured outside, but I’m thinking I would want to keep this in my craft room at all times.
NYC Resistor member Shelby Arnold has a cool new project: a concertina-folded illustrated notebook complete with popups! The Pop-Up Concertina is an accordion-folded booklet with pop-ups, covered on both sides with drawings I made using a bunch of .005 micron pens over the course of several months. (…) You can look at it page by […]
I made a flash diffuser for the Canon Speedlight 580EX II after seeing our photo intern taping a piece of paper to his flash to act as a light bounce. His paper bounce didn’t last more than a few days of project photography in the extreme conditions of our lab, so after seeing him repeatedly throw them into the recycling bin, I decided to make him a durable 3D printed diffuser.
Design Sponge posted the perfect weekend DIY home project. I am digging this easy ottoman tutorial that creates extra seating for your home in any cool fabric you choose.
When I visited my aunt on Cape Cod last summer, she had this contraption that you made banana ice cream with. Throw frozen bananas and other things in, and out comes banana ice cream! The results were delicious, but my kitchen has no room for single-purpose appliances. Luckily, there’s an everyday kitchen appliance that yields the same results: a blender! Little Eco Footprints has a recipe for making really yummy looking banana chocolate ice cream.
