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Justin Huynh writes in: The Eli Whitney Museum in Hamden, CT is hosting a maker meetup on September 23, at 7:30 PM. Museum Director Wm Brown will be giving a talk called “Eli Whitney invented MAKE” to kick-off this series of maker meetups, especially since the modern-day maker embodies many of the qualities that made […]
I wanted to create a new theme for his room to celebrate his starting school. He asked for a room decorated from the pages of one of his favorite books, The Octonauts. This was fun and difficult at the same time. One of my favorite elements turned out to be this gussied up lamp, which came from, you guessed it, Ikea.
Our 2008 display, pictured here, featured a skeleton in an electric chair. When a kid approaches the porch the system triggers and the skeleton rises out of the chair accompanied by fog, a strobe light, and loud sounds of an electrical arc. The front window featured a rear-projection video of a large tesla coil operating with large arcs streaming everywhere to complete the ‘mad scientist’ appearance….The electric chair has a light rope for the “wires” connecting the skeleton to the chair. Upon triggering fog is released by a fog machine behind the chair, illuminated by eerie green light and a strobe light.
Ty over at ThinkGeek hipped us to their latest custom product, which is a T-shirt with a Lego-compatible baseplate attached to the front so you can build stuff on it–murals, spaceships, chunky boobs, whatever floats your boat.
From the MAKE Flickr pool For the first assignment of his Intro to Physical Computing class, Greg rigged up a couple of conductive matchbox cars to act as a switch – lighting their moment of impact. Read more over at Ideas for Dozens.
If you have a game, but no ball, and the closest sporting goods store is miles away, what are you going to do? Make one, of course!
Artist Jennifer Harrison of Masks by Jen hand-tools and -paints leather to make this and other amazing custom masks.
