HOW TO – Shave a deck of cards
This video shows you how to shave a deck of cards so that you can perform many common card tricks. Make a “Magic” Deck of Playing Cards – Link
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Celebrating LEGO’s 75th Anniversary
In honor of LEGO’s 75th anniversary, DIY Life has put together a list of 23 of their favorite LEGO projects online (many of which we’ve already covered here). The one seen above is an amazing, working Guitar Hero game controller modeled after the Gibson Explorer. LEGO’s 75th anniversary: 23 DIY LEGO ideas – Link Related: […]
HOW TO – Hack The Spy Ear and reverse engineer a circuit
Biotele writes – This instructable introduces the venerable Spy Ear in details and my way to reverse engineer a circuit. Why does this device deserves its own instructable?: You can buy a Spy Ear for a dollar! It can amplify sounds up to 60 dB or a factor of a 100. It has a self […]
A Stirling engine in a teacup
This attractive cup-perched craft project is actually a working papercraft model of a Stirling engine being sold by a Germany science novelty catalog. Sitting on your tea or coffee cup, the heat (or cold) from within will power the engine for up to an hour. The kit costs EUR21.90 (around US$30). The Stirling engine kit […]
Korean CargoCycles
Kevin Kelly’s Street Use has these (and other) pics of motorcycles and bikes, used in the Dong Dae Mun Market of Seoul, to circulate heavy loads around town. Says the photographer: These bikes are the grease that make the market smooth, you see them ferrying ridiculously big loads for 500 metres or so to where […]
LEGO turns 75
Happy 75th birthday LEGO! – Parties were due to take place around the world Friday for Danish toy firm Lego as its 5,000 global employees prepared to celebrate the company’s 75th birthday. Master carpenter Ole Kirk Christiansen started the company on August 10, 1932 in his studio in the town of Billund in Jutland. The […]
Model, sport rocketry reference source
If you read Bill Gurstelle’s “Happy Blastoff” piece, about last year’s LDRS (Large Dangerous Rocket Ships) event, in MAKE Vol. 10, and it whet your appetite for building some LDRS of your own, INFOCentral is for you. Maintained by Rocketry Online, it’s a decent beginner’s online reference library covering all aspects of rocket design, construction, […]