Ruby, Lena and Charlotte are three young girls who built a secret knock gumball machine by following Steve Hoefer’s instructions in MAKE. As demonstrated at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011, a special knock (shave and a haircut, but don’t tell…) activates the gumball dispenser. For their next project they are thinking of designing a car that looks like a camel.
In celebration of the Wearable Light Organ (above), our 10th electronics project in the Weekend Projects series, we’re doing another giveaway. This time, you could win a Maker’s Notebook AND a Maker Shed Mintronics: Survival Pack which is packed with some of the very components we’ve been using in many of our projects.
Make: Live’s Halloween bash featured action stylist Anney Fresh, electrically-enhanced pumpkins aka “hack-o-lanterns”, and a costume parade by attendees at the party hosted by MakerBot in Brooklyn, NY. Matt and Becky open the show with an homage to The X-Files.
These adorable Teru Teru Bozu dolls grabbed my attention during lunch yesterday. Omiyage in Toronto posted a great picture of them this week and referenced a tutorial on how to make them from Halloweens past. It’s been so rainy this in Detroit lately that I think I need to make these ASAP.
Shawna Peterson of Peterson Neon gave demos on neon designs and tube bending at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011. Nearly every piece of neon signage in existence still must be made by hand and Miss Peterson is continuing a master-and-apprentice tradition by making these artistic works. Watch more videos from Maker Faire in Bay Area, […]
Learn how to make candy glow under UV by adding vitamin B2! In this Halloween episode of Becky’s Workshop, we whip up some kryptonite candy, as seen in BrittLiv’s Instructable.
Kim Keever’s elaborate method produces remarkable results. This, from a statement at Denver’s David B. Smith Gallery: “Kim Keever’s large-scale photographs are created by meticulously constructing miniature topographies in a 200-gallon tank, which is then filled with water.”
