Each Tuesday we have “The Maker File” an interview with an interesting Maker and what they do, this week’s is an interview with James Larsson by MAKE & CRAFT publisher, Dale Dougherty, he’s joined in the conversation by Bre Pettis who also shot some footage separately of James and one of his devices. James is […]
Rusty Oliver brought his fireball making artwork “Blue Point” to a recent hackbot meetup. Rusty organizes Hazard Factory which makes cool artwork like this among other preposterous contraptions. Watch the video above or download it or subscribe in itunes to get it automatically. You can see them on blip too! Have you missed something? Watch […]
Ever since we added the bicycle category on MAKE we’ve had a ton of great projects and mods for bikes come in, here’s JakeStrait’s homemade bicycle trailer, he writes… – “Got my hands on some old 24″ wheels. I regreased the hubs, replaced a broken spoke, and remove the freewheel from the rear. I used […]
This weekend, make your own GPV. Grocery Powered Vehicles are contraptions that you can make with materials that you can find at your local grocery store. In this podcast, I teach you how to make a simple hovercraft, bearingless motor, and dirigible. I was inspired by the contraptions on David Williamson’s website to construct these […]
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Earl Boysen was kind enough to arrange for our MAKE blog readers to get this special Halloween how-to “called Scary Pumpkins” from the book he co-authored Electronics Projects For Dummies – The Scary Pumpkins sense visitors when they walk between them using an infrared beam. The pumpkins then greet the vistors with a spooky message […]
MAKE Instructable member Honus shows how to build a single speed suspension bike – “I had previously sold my mountain bike and I really missed it so I decided to put together a new bike using parts I had in my garage. I built a similar frame around ten years ago when URT’s (unified rear […]
