Cookie cutter creation app 12/12/2010 From MAKE subscriber Nikolaus Gradwohl of Vienna: This is a small how-to video that explains how to design and print...
Homemade plastic extrusion system 12/11/2010 MAKE subscriber Rob Torcellini of Eastford, CT, sent in his extrusion system for turning HDPE pellets into thin, textured strips...
Christmas light display turned video game 12/10/2010 Following up on his Christmas light hero game, Ric Turner created another neighbor-annoying but indubitably cool interactive Christmas display. The...
Kinect air guitar 12/10/2010 Chris O’Shea emailed in with his super sweet Kinect hack, allowing him to play air guitar! Written in c++ using...
Lego Antikythera Mechanism 12/10/2010 This video is absolutely stunning, not only because of the excellence of the Lego construct, but because of beauty of...
Segfault, an analog balancing scooter 12/09/2010 ChArLeS from Cambridge, MA, wrote in with his self-balancing scooter. SEGFAULT is a balancing vehicle with a 100% hardware stability...
Threat level indicator 12/08/2010 Michal Zalewski’s Homeland Security threat level indicator is just what you need to keep the fam informed.
Dyeing Shapeways prints with a Sharpie 12/08/2010 My colleague Sean Ragan recently discovered that rather than pay for Shapeways’ colorized outputs, it was easier, cheaper, and more...
Kinect hand detection = Minority Report interface? 12/08/2010 The indubitably cool (though possibly non-ergo) gesture interface seen in the movie Minority Report as well as amazing real-world projects...