Roasting Pan Guitar Resonator
Shamus built this cool guitar using a flea-market aluminum roasting pan as the resonator body. Sounds good! Click play above to hear it sing at 1:50, or rewind to hear the build deets. [Thanks, Alan Dove!]
Science
DIY science is the perfect way to use your creative skills and learn something new. With the right supplies, some determination, and a curious mind, you can create amazing experiments that open up a whole world of possibilities. At home-made laboratories or tech workshops, makers from all backgrounds can explore new ideas by finding ways to study their environment in novel ways – allowing them to make breathtaking discoveries!
Kinetic Sculpture Manipulates Rare Earth Magnets
Dave Johnson’s magnet machine has a lot of fascinating details: This machine manipulates small spherical rare earth magnets. slicing one at a time from the end of a long chain, moving it around a bit, then dropping it back to re-connect at the tail end of the chain. It also demonstrates a little snippet of […]
PIGS IN SPAAAAAAAACE
Now that our space program is over, we can all look forward to getting back to basics (don’t freak, it’s not real)…
Top 10: Bike Repair
We have covered a lot of bike-related content over the years, and a lot of bike-repair-related content. Trouble is, we don’t have a separate repairs-only category, so assembling this round-up required manual cherry-picking from the many pages of our Bicycle category archive. I then picked my ten favorites, tabulated the pageviews for each, and counted the days since it was posted, and divided to get an average-traffic-per-day figure for each post. So this is probably my most scientifically-organized Top 10 to date. I hope you enjoy it. Happy Friday!
Geek Field Trip Report! Smithsonian Office of Exhibits Central
“Uncle Beazley,” after his refresh at OEC Recently, I had the rare opportunity to visit the Smithsonian Institution’s Office of Exhibits Central (OEC) in Landover, MD. A friend of mine, Richard Gould, is an Exhibits Specialist there. I was thrilled to be invited. I went with well-known DC-area artist and รผber-geek, Alberto Gaitรกn. The large […]
Felt Heart Wedding Banners
This is the inaugural episode in the NEW CRAFT Video series, Corinne’s Craft Closet (isn’t alliteration fun?) featuring me, Corinne Leigh! I’m getting married this year and what a grand DIY affair it will be! Today I’ll show you how to make some fabulous felt banners, cute name cards and a coordinating embroidered ring pillow. […]
For Sale: Full-Scale Saturn V F-1 Engine Model
Nineteen feet tall. Twelve feet in diameter. “The F-1 is still the most powerful single-chamber liquid-fueled rocket engine ever put into service. Manufactured by Rocketdyne, five F-1 engines were used in the first stage of each Saturn V rocket, each generating 1.5 million pounds-force of thrustโmore than all three Space Shuttle main engines combined.”
