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 […]
Peter writes – “The normal building blocks that you get for kids or play Jenga with don’t come close to the precision that Keva achieves with every single piece of wood in their Keva Planks. Each block is a precisely made 1/4 inch thick, 3/4 inch wide and 4 1/2 inches long piece of maple. […]
With North Korea in the news, we thought this would be an interesting article to post online…In the current issue of MAKE we have an article by George Dyson called “Strange Love: or, how they learned to start worrying and love to hate the bomb.” Here’s a link to the article on MAKE and the […]
Here’s how to make a handheld “hand inker” from a HP ink cartridge – you can use this to print on walls, people, beer… [via] – Link. But wait there’s more! Check out this cool kit if you want to make your own (or another version of this hack). 96 dpi Serial Inkjet Printer Kit […]
Halloween is coming and it’s time to get creative and make some monsters that will do your bidding. In this video, you’ll learn how to use paper and polycarbonate (lexan) to make shadow puppets. Then you’ll learn how to make a shadow theater. If you make a puppet show, make sure to take pictures and […]
