In this episode of weekend projects, I make a spud gun and teach you how to make one too. In the process, I get hit with a potato, shocked by a stun gun, caught by security, and attempt to obliderate a pumpkin. How can you resist? This video podcast was inspired by William Gurstelle’s article […]
For the first time ever, you can watch a video of how to make something, print out the magazine article with instructions and then manipulate the object in 3D (!!!) within the pdf to check it out from every angle! Never have the barriers to making a spud gun been so low! Click here to […]
Here’s a special edition of the “Maker File” – Colin Berry reads Spinout, the story he wrote for Make Volume 07 about his brother’s efforts to build and race a car in the soap box derby in Longmont, Colorado. Unfortunately, he was up against more than just his own bad luck. Introduction by MAKE & […]
Each Tuesday we have “The Maker File” – an interview with an interesting Maker and what they do, this week’s is an interview with Tim Black from the Mad Scientists collective by MAKE & CRAFT publisher, Dale Dougherty. The Mad Scientists are a group of Silicon Valley techies who engage in art projects at Burning […]
You still have over a week to make an LED pumpkin. Go check out the Weekend Projects Podcast: Make A Programmable LED Pumpkin and then download the pdf instructions and you’re good to go. To make it easy, subscribe in itunes and have the video and the pdf instructions downloaded automatically for you!
It struck me like a bolt of lightning when I was reading the new CRAFT magazine: I could make a programmable LED pumpkin! Watch the video to learn how to do it and get inspired to get some LEDs blinking in your pumpkin! I still have a lot to learn about how to program it, […]
For this project, I modified the idea out of Craft: magazine and so I’ve include the article from that magazine as a downloadable pdf to print out and guide you on this project. I made a few changes. I used regular LEDs instead of the teeny tiny surface mount ones. I used Lexan/ Polycarbonate for […]
