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Ouch! Clever forum member pulletsforever wanted to be able to read MAKE on his iPad, and in the process of poking around, found a security vulnerability that lets anyone download complete PDF copies of the MAKE digital edition.
And we’re back with our ninth installment of Your Comments. Here are our favorites from the past week, from Make: Online, our Facebook page, and Twitter. Alan wondered if the Current electric motor scooters were being reinvented: While visiting China a few years ago, I noticed that about every fifth vehicle passing me on the […]
Usually found on custom cars and sporting goods, the carbon fiber look is easily achieved with adequate funds and plenty of time. For about $8 XDA member My_Name_Is_Neo wrapped a Nexus One in a custom carbon fiber skin.
Geek Dad John Knight built this “Electromagnetic Geospacial Globe and Remote View with Obligatory Goggles” with RFID tags and reader (Touchatag) to remote-control Google Earth on a steampunk’d tablet computer. Oh, and the goggles? They don’t do anything special. Yet. John will be showing how he built it and talking about it this morning at […]
From a series of videotaped experiments by astronaut Don Pettit performed about the ISS in 2003.
Emperor be praised! Holy Machine God! Priests of Mars, eat your steam-powered hearts out! Via Kotaku (by way of DudeCraft) comes this unreal Warhammer 40,000 Dreadnought casemod — yes, there’s a PC in there somewhere. I love the way the assault cannon actually spins up. In the future there are only incredible case mods
MAKE Volume 23 is on newsstands now! In this special GADGETS issue, we show you how to make a menagerie of delightful machines: a miniature electronic Whac-a-Mole arcade game, a tiny but mighty see-through audio amplifier, a magic mirror that contains an interactive animated soothsayer, a self-balancing one-wheeled Gyrocar, and the Most Useless Machine — […]
