The Real Thing – Clean water filtered from Coca-Cola
This art installation from Helmut Smits filters Coca-Cola into clean drinking water – [via] 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!
HOW TO – Making a hard drive laser oscilloscope
Hacked Gadgets has a follow up to to the hard drive laser oscilloscope, here’s how to make one – “A hard drive voice coil circuit is hacked to allow it to be directly connected to a stereo output. This allows audio to move the hard drive read write head. Mirrors are positioned on the center […]
DIY Foot Flusher
I’ve seen tons of toilets with top handle kicked / damaged, you know, from kicking the handle to flush – Reykjavik has an Instructable that looks like a good DIY a solution – “This is a simple little project which will allow you to easily and quickly set up a foot flusher. A foot flusher […]
LED MEGA-Light
Do not look at LED MEGALIGHT with remaining eye… – “This is a homemade LED flashlight with a PVC body that is easily bright enough to blind you, and uses only one special LED (a Luxeon V). The light projected is a smooth, clear white illumination with no “rings” in the projected light like those […]
Homebrew picture frame
3D King writes – “Saw the MAKE 6 article on using a Sandisk photo album board, had a suitable lcd in the junk box, Ebayd a few years ago, and found the photo album on offer at Best buy. Built a simple wooden box which fits the frame in picture 4. The Sandisk needs 5v, […]
Building a Vacuumform table
Mozzwald writes – “Found this page about how to make a Large vacuumform table for molding. I remember seeing a small version on here before and thought this would be helpful as well. The site has plenty of other how-to’s on making molds for costumes.” – Link.
Message to Pretty at Juniortown Gallery
Crafter and artist Julie Smith gave us the scoop on the opening party of “Message to Pretty” (MAKE post here), the Chicago Art vs. Craft show going on now through June 10th which features the works of Elisabeth Doherty (amigurumi), Erinn Kennedy (paintings), Julie Smith (amigurumi), and Olivia Ortego (paintings) . Julie says, “Message to […]