Singlet Style Shopping Bag Tutorial
Here’s a great sewing tutorial by queenofdiy on craftster to make a fabric shopping bag that’s made from a plastic bag pattern. 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!
Accessible vehicles
Patrick writes – A few issues back Make did a feature on making changes to one’s vehicle. I’d like to share something similar that’s in the spirit of Make–making vehicles accessible for the disabled. A whole lotta creative engineering is involved, and every job is a custom one, fit specifically for that person’s needs. Recently, […]
Science, tech, electronicsy videos @ Alcatel-Lucent
Huh, Alcatel-Lucent has a ton of great videos on their site — Lightwave Communications Watch the first lightwave communications system take shape at Bell Labs. Charge Coupled Device Learn about the development of the charge-coupled device (CCD) at Bell Labs. UNIX Watch Bell Labs’ Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie talk about the birth of UNIX. […]
HOW TO – Make your own LED bulbs
Claude shows you how to make your own LED light bulbs, he writes – After many attempts to make all sorts of LED-conversions I finally found one solution that is simple and efficient. Of course, you do need a great amount of patience in making this but when you consider the countless hours of pure […]
Wiimote as car accelerometer
This fairly simple hack uses a Nintendo Wii remote to capture G-force readings in a car, dump it to a CSV (Comma-Separated Values) text file, and then graph it via Excel. The results aren’t the most precise, but apparently good enough to give you some useful feedback on car mods. Wii Remote Measurements [via] – […]
HOW TO – Make a simple fly trap
Here’s an Instructable on how to make an old school fly trap from a 2 liter bottle and a leftover food container. Fly Trap – Link
Make your own Moonbeam
Earlier in the week, we covered the Boston Globe piece about the Moonbeam, a three-wheel microcar. Bre Pettis pointed me to builder Jory Squibb’s website where he has background info, numerous pics, video and a “How to Build Moonbeam” project journal. How to build Moonbeam, a 100 MPG microcar – Link