I am a beginning robot enthusiast. I got hooked looking at the article in Make: 07 about the scribbler. Robotics is a bigger project than a weekend. If you are looking for something simple, you could mess about with a kit or reverse engineer this. I got lucky and found the chassis and motors for […]
DL writes – “Bettie is a Bike Hugger project to build a sport-utility bike with a Karate Monkey 29-incher frame, Stokemonkey, and an Xtracycle. Bettie has an enormous carrying capacity, it’s heavy duty — 2 adults or an adult and 2 kids at a time — and is fun (really, really fun).” – Link. Related: […]
A few months ago, I got a chance to go visit Ernie Fosselius’ workshop with some of my peers at Make: and it was great to hang out with Ernie as he shared his work with us. Ernie makes automatons, puppets, and human powered machines that are clever and fun. Besides showing his work, there […]
This week’s CRAFT podcast pattern are 4 bird stencils created by Lisa Howdin at Fitzpatterns. Each week on MAKE we crank out a weekend project video along with a companion PDF you can print/view and on CRAFT (our crafty sister magazine due out in Oct) we’ve sent out a sewing pattern and now stencils! So […]
In 2000, I spent a summer living in the woods doing restoration work. I lived in a tent and every night, the bats would come out and I oftened wondered what it would sound like to be a bat and to be able to hear all of the bat-traffic aound my tent. At that time, […]
Tony has an awesome set of step by step instructional pages for this bat detector project. I’ve also packed them into a pdf that itunes will pick up automatically so that all of you podcast subscribers won’t miss out!
They look like vintage planes but they are actually just good o’ bikes that ride on the street. According to Billy, the creator, it’s street legal in all 50 states. Billy may be “flying” down your street one day soon. Link.
