Bay Area artist, builder, and fungineer Mark Perez had a dream to create a larger-than-life version of the classic board game Mouse Trap. Though it took him a span of 13 years to make it a reality, what he created is an amazing 25-ton Rube Goldberg machine that has brought smiles and a new appreciation […]
Lego builder Matt “Monsterbrick” Armstrong rebuilt a Lego 10225 (a 2,000-piece R2-D2 model) in black and gold to create R2-Pi, the Death Star astrodroid. It will be featured at Legoland Star Wars Days.
Turn a woven cane chair into a beautiful—and very useful—work of art with this cross-stitch chair tutorial!
Use your Silhouette digital cutter to work a little home decor magic with this diamond vinyl decals pattern!
There is a large field of mustard a couple miles from MAKE headquarters, and for a few weeks in spring, all the mustard blooms, and the field turns brilliant yellow. On the way home from work about a month ago, I stopped at the field, with a plan to to take some photos. As I got closer to the ideal photo spot, I came across a gentleman, documentary filmmaker Michael Heumann, flying a quadcopter. We got to chatting, and I ended up snapping some photos. Michael has a DJI Phantom Aerial UAV Drone Quadcopter with a GoPro camera mounted to it, and he showed me how he had installed some Moongel pads on the top and bottom of the camera, to absorb shock to reduce video shakiness.
Housing people in an emergency is never easy and designer Michel Antoun has an interesting take on providing shelter. His temporary housing unit is made from compressed wood panels and folds up into a cube for easy shipping. Once deployed at a disaster site one wall cleverly folds down, which both doubles the square footage of the shelter and exposes solar cells to provide power to the shelter.
Instructables artist-in-residence timwikander shares a tutorial for making the Tres Lamp, a simple tripod frame that supports a hanging pendant bulb. I admire its utilitarian simplicity.
