While checking inbound links to his Steampunk Workshop, MAKE pal Jake von Slatt stumbled on this amazing steampunk casemod on a Polish modding forum. Really amazing, with needle guages, lots of lighting F/X, a porthole with clockworks inside, and lots of old school plumbing hardware. Not sure how much of it is functional and how […]
Mrgalleta writes – The idea is to build a replica of the Daft Punk Table sold at Habitat, very nice, but, as long as I know not sold anymore. The building process is not very complicated, the hardest part is to decide everything when your starting point is zero. I could get some ideas about […]
This short vid shows two really sweet BEAM Vibrobot “spiders” skittering around on a dinner plate. If you’re interested in learning how to make solar-powered vibrobots, I did a how-to on Street Tech a while back (see link below). BEAM spider bots face off – Link How-To: Build BEAM Vibrobots – Link
Big news for Makers! MAKE and CRAFT now offer hundreds of awesome How-To videos available as DVD rentals through a seamless interface with our good partner, SmartFlix. SmartFlix is a service that rents video DVDs – just like your corner video store (NetFlix, BlockBuster, etc) … but they rent how-to videos. Videos on running lathes, […]
Wow, here’s a really cool small camera sequencer, for VJing (video DJing with a GameBoy)… Link.
Jon writes – This is a scan of the complete Bloc-Tronic electronic kit manual. It has 163 electronics projects from a simple continuity tester to a radio transmitter which are arranged roughly in order of complexity. Each project has both the block layout for the kit and a standard schematic so you could build these […]
A deployed US solider (somewhere in the Middle East) was looking for an electronics project to do with his team, he writes in… We received the four MintyBoost kits a couple of days ago. In preperation for a longish mission we have coming up, several of the guys were interested in building them sooner rather […]
