Holiday Projects: Star Wars Droidel Dreidel and TIE Fighter Ornament
From the Star Wars Kids Craft archives here are more fun holiday projects you can make. Droidel, Droidel, Droidel – Link. How to Make a TIE fighter holiday ornament – Link.
Year: 2006
The Maker’s Bill of Rights (PDF)
If you can’t open it, you don’t own it.
Nintendo Wiimote Acceleration Sensor Reading
There’s been a lot of progress made with dissecting the operation of the Wiimote. This video was recently posted on youtube, showing a PC MATLAB graph of the Wii’s acceleration sensor data. Since this data is now technically available on the PC via bluetooth, it shouldn’t be too long before someone puts together a Wiimote […]
Fire Starter Flashlight
“This is a 12V bulb which is being overdriven to 14+V, to about 140 watts, with an estimated light output of about 4000 lumens. Compare that to a regular 2D MagLight, which is much, much less than 50 lumens.” Yup, that’s 12 1.2V NiMH batteries in there, which I guess means it’s rechargable too. I […]
Make a Menorah, Create an Ornament @ NPR
Carla from CRAFT and myself are judges for a fun contest @ NPR – “Make a timely ornament (or a menorah, for the Jews!). NPR’s First Ever Holiday Craft Contest. Design either a handmade menorah or a Christmas tree ornament. We are looking for designs that reflect the news of 2006. We also welcome quirky, […]
NPR Holiday Contest: Make a Menorah, Create an Ornament
Hey Crafters! Our own Carla Sinclair from CRAFT and Phil Torrone from MAKE are judges for a fun DIY contest @ NPR. Here’s the scoop: “Make a timely ornament (or a menorah, for the Jews!). NPR’s First Ever Holiday Craft Contest. Design either a handmade menorah or a Christmas tree ornament. We are looking for […]
PS3 Grill
“When the final case design of the Playstation 3 was released, it was widely critsised as looking exactly like a George Foreman Grill … we decided this would be a great project and challenge to actually build the Real PS3 Grill.” I don’t know about you, but I take comfort in knowing that somehow, somewhere, […]
