mp4 | ipod | mov | hd-appletv | 3gp | 3g2 | pdf | itunes | youtube Make your bike into a single speed hipster bike! This week Dave Neff joins me to take some old broken bikes and mash them up into a new radical ride. Everbody’s experience will be different, but we rebuilt […]
This week the Make: PDFcast is a comicbook pdf all about converting your old trashy bike into a snazzy single speed bike. I went a little nuts making it up in Comic Life. There’s lots of good tips in this pdf, but honestly, your best bet is to just get some tools and go to […]
mp4 | mov | hd-appletv | 3gp | 3g2 | pdf | blip | youtube | itunes This weekend, make a human powered siege weapon. Using a human as a counter-weight and PVC piping for the structure, this catapult can hurl water balloons 100 yards or more. For this project I joined forces with siege […]
The Make: PDFcast this week is an excerpt from William’s bok The Art of the Catapult. Download the pdf to get the detailed instructions to make this siege weapon. PDF Link This flinging machine is optimized for water balloons, but we used a small plastic cow. Subscribe in itunes to get both the video and […]
Lots of new stuff in the Maker store (and a special congrats to Rob!) – Here’s a fun little open source soldering kit that provides an introduction to the capabilities of microcontrollers. The readerboard spells out preprogrammed messages such as “MAKE” one letter at a time on its alphanumeric LED display. The LED Micro-Readerboard, designed […]
I’ve enjoyed Gareth’s writing for a while and it was great to finally meet him at Maker Faire. He was giving workshops on how to make Mousey the Junkbot and I got him to explain a little bit about it on tape and got inspired to make my own Mousey. Gareth wrote the article that […]
It’s a three day weekend and if you haven’t had a chance to watch the weekend projects podcast, now is the time. You can watch the video and read the pdf and learn about brain waves and how to make a brain machine! This is what it looks like in itunes. If you subscribe in […]
