Cardboard Periscope โ Sylviaโs Mini Maker Show
Today weโre diving deep for an easy build you can do in an afternoon: your very own cardboard periscope. Letโs go!
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Make: Live’s Halloween Party (preview video)
Join us Wednesday evening for the next episode of Make: Live, our streaming show and tell! We’re having a Halloween party at MakerBot and we’ll share the best DIY Halloween projects with you live from the festivities.
PLA Seed Bomb
Tony Buser’s F-Bomb packs soil and flower seeds into a bomb-shaped and biodegradable PLA shell. Sure, there are cheaper and more efficient ways to do this… but… pfft… The idea is to stuff it with some compost and seeds and then throw it somewhere that you think could use some color, but you either can’t […]
How-To: Trash Bag Spider Web Halloween Decor
Jessica from How About Orange came up with a brilliant and inexpensive way to create some bold Halloween decor. In a burst of festivity, I decided we should have some Halloween decorations in the house. Something 1) dramatic, 2) super cheap, and 3) didn’t require me to go to the store. Behold: trash bag spiderwebs. […]
Make: Live’s Halloween Party (preview video)
Join us Wednesday evening for the next episode of Make: Live, our streaming show and tell! We’re having a Halloween party at MakerBot and we’ll share the best DIY Halloween projects with you live from the festivities.
Homemade Doggy Tank Costume
Youtube user darkbluedrew made this doggy tank costume, which apparently won a costume competition! The dog is well rewarded with treats. I have since fixed a part of the back of the tank that was hitting his leg. The gun handle trigger controls the lights and sound. [via Buzzfeed]
How-To: Get a Liquid Lens Module to Play With
A liquid lens is pretty much exactly what it sounds like. The really cool thing about them is that, though they have no moving parts (unless you count the liquid itself), they can achieve a pretty wide range of dynamically-variable focal lengths over a relatively short optical path. When I first read about them, the killer app was supposedly going to be phone cameras.
