My supply of decent roasted coffee is at dangerously low levels, so my daughter and I spent a short time roasting coffee today. There are some great books and online resources for coffee roasting, but in a nutshell, here’s my simple method (purists will cringe; you can be much more precise about all of this. […]
Danny is a frequent user at the Boston Fab Lab. He has done some great work to figure out the laser cutter. In nice Fab Lab community fashion, Danny has encouraged and tutored many other lab users on how to get the most out of the tools in the lab. The Boston Fab Lab is […]
Here’s a simple project that uses three pennies as anchors for the various parts of a radio build. Check out the link below for instructions and parts list for building this device. Three Penny Radio
The folks at esprit cabane show readers how to make these wintry stars from the bottoms of plastic water bottles.
“Field of Light” by Bruce Munro (currently installed at the Eden Project in Corwall, UK) consists of 6,000 acrylic stems connected with fiber optic cables ending in a clear glass sphere. The stems themselves hold no power, so there are 11 external projectors that send light to the balls while the entire installation covers an […]
This hockey playing robot is a prototype for a more expressive one no doubt, but we here at Make also like to publish projects that aren’t quite finished in order to show the process. This bot detects the movement of the ball and then takes a swipe at it. Next up, Gretsky no doubt! via […]
This tail-pipe hack is meant to make some noise every time the vehicle (in this case a motorcycle) spits out enough carbon monoxide that could be harmful to the environment. Since this might end up getting you into an accident, so we don’t condone this type of modification, still it’s kind of nice to hear […]
