Knife sharpening tricks (video)
Instructables TV is back again this week with a handy video on knife sharpening… – Link & QuickTime (M4V).
Kits
Bridge Building – Make: Podcast
Build a bridge out of popsicle sticks and hot glue and then stand on it! Will it hold your weight, or will it collapse and send shards of popsicle sticks flying? There’s only one way to find out, get yourself some popsicle sticks, warm up that hot glue gun, make a plan and build it! […]
Bridge Building Instructions
Use triangles – they are an engineer’s best friend when building bridges. Use a lot of popsicle sticks – sheer mass can perform very well. One team plugged in an iron, turned it upside-down, made a little pot out of aluminum foil and then melted glue in it so that they had a pot of […]
MAKE IT: Game of life kit
It’s what they call “the holiday time” so it’s soldering time … Based on British math whiz John Conway’s “Game of Life”. In the Game of Life, a collection of cells lives, dies or multiplies based on a few mathematical rules). DDT designed an easy-to-solder kit that is cheap and scalable. Each Game of Life […]
Snow bike kit
Peter writes – “Here’s a cool kit that will allow you to transform your mountain bike into a bike that you can ride on the snow! You just add the front ski and the back rear-drive and you’re set. No tools required.” [via] – Link.
Kite + Ice + Butt + Board = Instructables TV
The latest Instructables TV is out! Use home made devices to go kite ice butt boarding anywhere there is ice, wind and plenty of room, Tim writes – “Your screaming steel blades carve the ice. Your straining kite hurls you along at incredible speeds. You are mere inches above the ice. Or suddenly wiping out […]
It’s Not Too Late – Gifts from MAKE
A little housekeeping for the MAKE store and last minute gifts… The MAKE elves will be taking some well-deserved time off to spend time with their families, so we won’t be shipping any orders placed after this Thursday at 12pm (PST) until the first week of January. If you want your order for Christmas, we […]
