Month: August 2013

This pom pom bunny is too cute to wait until easter! Via Useful DIY

According to NASA, there’s a good chance we are in the midst of a significant solar storm. Detect it with a homemade magnetometer.

Infamous yarn bomber Hot Tea created a spectacular display on the Williamsburg bridge recently by simply tying colorful strands of yarn 10 feet above the pedestrian walk way.

MAKE Asks: is a weekly column where we ask you, our readers, for responses to maker-related questions. We hope the column sparks interesting conversation and is a way for us to get to know more about each other.

What’s better than kids making? Kids AND teachers making!

In late July and early August, three teachers at Maria Carillo High School in Santa Rosa, Calif. held a three-week Maker Camp for a small group of its high-schoolers on campus. Margie Bradylong, Maggie Swarner, and Catherine Borchert (math, science, and art teachers, respectively) collaborated on creating a program that introduced their students to a wide variety of projects and ideas, while also allowing them to time and space to take their own individual ideas and make them into something real and tangible.

In the James Bond movie Thunderball, 007 packs a sexy, but unrealistic jet pack featuring two rockets that keep him floating awesomely over the landscape.

Taking that prop as inspiration, Rodger Cleye built a bi-copter with contra-rotating, gimbaled motors and a PVC frame, with a total weight of 13 pounds including the dummy. Despite this relatively large weight for a RC copter, Rodger still ekes out 10-minute flight times.