Month: July 2008

Water balloon slingshot

Water balloon slingshot

Here’s a simple but effective design for a water balloon launcher using surgical tubing – Make a wicked cool catapult that shoots water balloons really well without them exploding right away! You can buy water balloon shooters in stores, but they never work well and explode the water balloon as soon as you let go. […]

MAKE Projects – Volume 06

MAKE Projects – Volume 06

In each volume of MAKE we have “major projects” these project pages are meaty step-by-step articles with start-to-finish photos, precise instructions and how-to learning that can range from making a VCR cat feeder to ariel kite photography. In MAKE volume 07 the projects are: Two BEAMbots: Trimet and Solarroller by Gareth Branwyn. Solder together one […]

MAKE Projects – Volume 05

MAKE Projects – Volume 05

In each volume of MAKE we have “major projects” these project pages are meaty step-by-step articles with start-to-finish photos, precise instructions and how-to learning that can range from making a VCR cat feeder to ariel kite photography. In MAKE volume 05 the projects are: Soda Bottle Rocket by Steve Lodefink. You don’t have to be […]