Scratch-Built Colonial Viper Model Rockets
Hobby rockets couple scratch-built a fleet of Colonial Vipers from Battlestar Galactica.
Drones & Vehicles
How a Differential Gear Works
Wonderful industrial film from the 1930s showing how a car’s differential gear works.
Grocery getter bike project
Via Mister Jalopy and Dinosaurs and Robots (by way of Lenore Edman’s Twitter feed) comes this amazing bike project to create a cargo bike that actually comes apart so you can take the front assembly and basket into the store. Ingenious. And the build is well documented. Grocery Getter Contest Submission
Student makes Bike-in-a-wheel
Student makes bicycle which folds into 26-inch wheel circumference, wins James Dyson Prize Dominic Hargreaves’s bike, The Contortionist, has been shortlisted for this year’s James Dyson Award for innovation. It may bag the young inventor £10,000. The 24-year-old, from Battersea, London, said he wanted to create a decent folding bike after the one he was […]
New York’s Puerto Rican Bike Men
Bill Gurstelle is a Contributing Editor for MAKE magazine. His most recent book is entitled Absinthe & Flamethrowers: Projects and Ruminations on the Art of Living Dangerously. You can follow Bill on his danger-quest at twitter.com/wmgurst. He is a guest Make: Online author for the month of August. My friend Zina Saunders’ beautiful illustrations show […]
Star’s pillow hands
Star Simpson came up with this awesome plane-sleeping “hack.” She outfitted a pair of kid’s water wings with sheaths sewn from old T-shirt fabric. Looks comfy to me! Sound Sleep on a Long Flight
Del Cruiser’s “junkfiets” project
Del Cruiser has been working on building a “bakfiets” (box bike/cargo bike) from junked bikes and parts. He’s keeping a photojournal of his progress on Flickr. This project was inspired by the “Carrier Pidgeon” , which is a chinese-made imitation that has a shorter payload. By nature, bakfiets take some time getting used to due […]