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New in the Maker Shed: Discover Electronics Kit Version 2
Sparkle Labs’ Discover Electronics Kit is back in the Maker Shed and better than ever. New components, documentation, and an accompanying online video course will have you building projects and reading schematics in no time. Everything you need to make a light detector, led flasher, noise maker and more is right in the box.
How-To: Five-Minute Coffee Cake in a Mug
I’m with Jamie of Prudent Baby: I’ll take a sweet and spicy coffee cake over chocolate any day of the week. In the great cake-or-pie-in-a-mug tradition, she’s sharing how to make a simple coffee cake serving in a mug. You can have a mug of coffee in one hand, and a mug of coffee cake […]
Gravity Harps: Pendulum-Driven Robotic Instruments
Andy Cavatora and friends built these gravity harps for a Björk concert currently playing in the U.K. It looks like each pendulum has a servo-controlled rotation system that changes what note gets plunked at the pendulum’s nadir.
How-To: Black Cat Necklace
This simple black cat necklace tutorial from Cation Designs warms my little cat lady heart. Plus, the designer is a science teacher, so that makes it automatically awesome! Head over to the site to see the full tutorial.
Gremlins Applique
Fans of the 80s classic dark comedy horror film, Gremlins, will recognize this bit of advice immediately. A Mogwai is all cute and cuddly … until you get tricked in to feeding it after midnight. Flickr user, loveandasandwhich, created this awesome Gremlins applique piece, and includes a couple of in-progress shots of the fun fur […]
Scratchbuilt: Mi-24 “Hind” Attack Helicopter With 100K Parts
Every reported fact about this model is more amazing than the last: It was begun in 1986, when much information about the Hind was still protected by the Soviet Union as military secrets. It is constructed mostly from corrosion-resistant metals: aluminum, titanium, brass, stainless steel. The pedals in the cockpit work. The tires actually have air in them. The shocks actually compress. Many of the parts were fabricated under a microscope. The list goes on and on.