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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 โemployee- recognition products.โ Now his scaled-down medieval siege weapons bring heart, soul, and serious brains into the otherwise bland genre.
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No rational person denies that monorails are the greatest mode of urban transit ever. So Kim Pedersen built one in his backyard, making it the greatest backyard ever.
Stuck in the middle of a stack of stuff you’re supposed to do? Sharpen your wool clippers, and stop getting distracted by the pointless activities which surround any serious problem — unless you want to, that is.
