The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
Scary Terry’s Halloween pages has some cool projects using wiper motors that look like a lot of fun. Rocking a chair, kicking legs and dancing skeletons. Although it’s a bit too early for Halloween I’m going to start picking some motors up over the next few months to get ready to totally freak out the kids this October. Have any Halloween projects you’re thinking of doing? Let us know!
Editor-in-Chief Mark Frauenfelder on innovation and the entertainment industry’s efforts to squelch it.
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Imagine this: Your car battery is dead, and you’re stuck in the woods. Your mission: Get home before you freeze to death.
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Geeks gather together for an evening of DIY fun in our first-ever mini MAKE Fest at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology conference in 2005.
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This morning I spent ten minutes making the motor from the Howtoons cartoon in the first issue of Make. It consists of one AA battery, two safety pins, a magnet, some Scotch tape, a piece of telephone extension cable wire, a pad of Post-It notes, and a little nail polish. It’s been spinning for four hours so far. I like the clickety clickety sound is makes. I shot a little movie of it in action. (It’s an MP4, so you might have to download it to watch it.) Link
A few years ago, Kaden Harris was engraving brass nameplates for a manufacturer of “employee- recognition products.” Now his scaled-down medieval siege weapons bring heart, soul, and serious brains into the otherwise bland genre.
Continue ReadingIf the phrase “Live Steam enthusiasts” conjures up visions of health spa devotees huddled over vapor pools, think again.
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