Make a “Push-ped”
Nice bike/scooter hybrid great project from a 13 year old maker, nice work! – Link.
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!
DIY Tangible user interface for performing a chemical search by just putting real objects down on a real surface
Andrew writes – A while back, Roo Reynolds posted about his experiments with Reactivision. Reactivision is a really neat way of building what’re called tangible user interfaces; it’s a bit of software which reads in video being captured by a webcam and tracks the position (and rotation) of special blobs called “fiducial markersâ€. In other […]
Drag bike micro-controller shifter and NOS control
ChrisP writes – This started as a project about 2 and a half years ago when I started drag racing motorcycles with a friend who has a bike shop. The original project started as how to make things more efficient, easier on the motorcycle and of course more constistant. Of the bikes we race the […]
Retro-future scooter made from appliances and scrap metal
Nemomatic writes – Ever since I was a kid I have always loved old scooters. However I have never really wanted the responsibility of maintaining a “vintage” machine. I always thought to myself, “why can’t we have the convenience and reliability of modern engineering like a Honda with the class and styling of an old […]
Roll your own cathode tubes
In a follow-up to the amazing vid of a guy fabricating his own triode vacuum tubes, here’s a webpage from a builder who shows how he created his own crude cathode ray tubes. Homemade Cathode Ray Tubes – Link Related: Make your own vaccum tubes?
PET Bottles Shredder
Phil @ MAKE writes: This device “shreds” plastic bottles to make them easier to carry and to make crafts with them. Aiming to reduce the volume of PET bottles carried by “catadores” (people who collect bottles and other kinds of waste from streets), Takashi Utsumi developed a device with which one can rapidly shred PET […]
Creating a fiberglass snowmobile trailer (in the shape of a cat and mouse!)
Upnorthrick writes – Here is a snowmobile cutter I built over the last winter. It is a cat chasing a mouse chasing a chunk of cheese. The cheese is the hitch and the cat is the actual trailer. It is sized to carry a banana box and a bit more. The cat’s tail is a […]