Simple and easy way to add a light to your bike! – Link. Related: HOW TO – Make a Bike light holder/connector for … – Link. Antique bike light LED mod – Link. DIY solar bike light – Link. Tape case bike light – Link. HOW TO – Blinking cruiser bike light – Link. HOW […]
Like Doctor Frankenstein scouring the countryside for dead bodies to put together, so you, the camera hacker will scour garage sales, thrift stores and ebay to find old cameras to rip apart and put back together in creative new ways. Watch this video to learn how to take apart two cameras to make one super […]
Download the four pages of PDF instructions to get the scoop on how to rip apart a 6×9 folding bellows camera and a holga and put them together to make a wide angle medium format camera. If you load 35mm film in it, you’ll get an image that is 35mmx85mm and the work you produce […]
Dale Dougherty and Bill Gurstelle of MAKE Magazine visit the Punkin Chunkin World Championships in Millsboro, Delaware. In this segment, they talk about air cannons with Virginian Ray Tolson, owner and operator of Second Amendment Too. Click here to get the audio (LISTEN – MP3) delivered automatically with iTunes. Or just click the MP3 link […]
Ever since I heard about Nitinol, a shape-changing metal alloy, I’ve been wanting to play with it. In this video, I make a completely functional, but completely unnecessary lightswitch, put together a nitinol robot kit, an inch-bot and have a robot race! I’m confident that you can figure out how to make cars and contraptions […]
This weekend it’s time for a robot race! Put together some robots and race them for fun. I started this week by learning about nitinol, which is a shape changing metal alloy made up of nickel and titanium. I did some brainstorming. What could you do with a wire that I can activate to make […]
Part robotic plant life, part techno-sculpture, these desktop toys are easy and fun to make, the pummer! – and hey, it’s Friday so here’s a free article just for our blog readers from the pages of MAKE 08 – Toys and games. Click here to download the PDF, or get this PDF and many others […]
