This brilliant (albeit sacrilegious) project comes to us from Robert Kaye and Pierre Michael of Party Robotics. I’ll let them give you the background on it: Our longhaired friend Greg was planning a Jesus-themed birthday party, and people joked about a cool possible prop: a machine that would seemingly convert water to wine. “Hey!” we […]
Like many people in Southern New England, we were hit pretty hard by the Blizzard of 2013. Not only did we lose power for three days, but our road was blocked by fallen trees (cutting our supply lines), and our natural gas heater won’t fire without power, so we had to figure out how to get through those three days. Here’s how we used an ad-hoc solar power system, wood stove, and some snow shoveling to keep warm, fed, and charged up.
Skip down the street with some extra shimmer in your step—add glitter and trim to your own ballet flats!
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Check out what MAKE alum Becky Stern has been up to over at adafruit, lately.
It’s not that early to start thinking spring.
Researchers at the Flanders Mechatronics Technology Centre in Belgium have built a robot that can play quite a convincing game of badminton.
