5 summer projects from Howtoons
Howtoons has a round-up of five fun and easy summer projects that you and your kids can do, from making ice cream to kite-building to making a simple underwater scope from a soda bottle. 5 Summer Projects
Year: 2010
Coiled extension cord lamp kit
Designer Craighton Berman makes these cool lamps that are mostly formed from their own extension cords. Plus a laser-cut acrylic frame and a basic lamp kit. He’ll see you just the frame and the lamp, so you can roll your own, or a complete lamp pre-wound with a 100′ cord.
Invisible computer mouse is perfect accessory for mimes
Love your mouse, but tired of having to cart it around everywhere?
Happy Fourth of July!
Happy Fourth of July! Hope you are enjoying the festivities today and fireworks later tonight. Pictured above are some red, white, and blue cupcakes with candy star toppers by Cindy of Skip to My Lou.
30MPH electric mountain bike
MAKE subscriber Jennifer Holt of Columbus, OH, wrote in to share her rather overpowered electric mountain bike, running on a 48V motor powered by a homemade battery pack consisting of 144 3.3V lithium ion cells. Data from the battery monitor is logged to an SD card. This is the second of the two electric bicycles […]
Happy 4th! (One word says a lot)
Happy Independence Day to all of our American makers! In case you didn’t see this piece on Boing Boing, I thought I would post it here. I think it, and one of the first comments it received, speak volumes about this amazing experiment we call the United States of America. Hyperspectral images of a draft […]
Solar system necklace – “Each bead represents 20 million miles”
Laura Cesari, aka Chain of Being, makes beaded models of the solar system that, by the way, can also be worn as necklaces. Her work was recently featured on the blog of Carl Sagan’s Planetary Society: