“Self-Carving” Pumpkin
Do you have some extra orange vegetables (or are they fruits?) in your yard? Get in the halloween spirit without having to actually carve anything, thanks to the help of peanut butter and squirrels!
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!
Better Zombies Through Physics
Jim Ottaviani and Sean Bieri are doing a serialized zombie comic on the Tor site. Join us for chills, thrills, and pulse-pounding scientific breakthroughs as we embark on a tour of the Quantum Zombie, Inc. facility, courtesy of a guy who bears a striking resemblance to famed scientist and cat-lover Erwin Schrödinger. Hijinks, hilarity, and […]
How-to: Cast concrete planters using packing inserts
Sean sent us a link to a very cool project. It shows you how to cast these really nice flowerpots using Styrofoam packaging materials and plastic cups. The end results are really nice. [Thanks Sean] More about How-to: Cast concrete planters using packing inserts
How-to: “Sun Gun”
One of our readers sent in this interesting project. The Sun Gun is a device that allows you to see the sun without melting your retinas. This looks like a cool project to make for the kids. I wanted a solar scope, safe and portable, for group sun spot viewing. The designs I looked at […]
Bring back the airships!
For this weekend’s Steam Powered: The California Steampunk Convention, the band Abney Park and Airship Ventures have teamed up to offer dirigible rides to conference-goers (for $785 a ticket). Airship Ventures just brought one of their Zeppelin NTs over from Germany and it will be moored at Moffett Field. MAKE contributor Todd Lappin was lucky […]
Wind Tree will turn wind into turntablism
“Wind Tree” by Elliot Montgomery connects a custom built turbine with a record player so that the blowing wind actually drove the turntable to spin causing the resulting sound to slow down or speed up depending on the available gusts. This project was built during a workshop at Solar One, “a New York-based center devoted […]
Arduino gets greener with a Solio
Here’s an example of a simple way to make your Arduino greener. This setup is a Solio with an external USB cable connected up to Arduino to power a basic routine on the board. Check out the video of it in action at the link below. SOLAR POWERED ARDUINO USING A SOLIO