MAKE contributor Steve Lodefink came up with a quick way of bodging together some dueling lightsabers from flashlights, plastic tubes, lenses from 3D glasses, reflective material, and tape. Hours of fun. Or minutes, anyway. 2 Minute Dueling Lightsabers – Link
2nd year engineering students from UBC (University of British Columbia) building robots to “play” a jumbo version of the electronic board game Operation. 2007 UBC Engineering Physics 253 – Doctor-Bot – Link Related: OPERATION: The costume – Link Make your own Operation board game – Link Making an ‘Operation’ game costume – Link
These iPod cases, made from cassette tape shells and 45 record vinyl, are commercial items, which cost US$45 each, but it’d be a cinch to replicate something similar, if you’d rather roll your own. 45 Nano Cases – [via] Link Related: HOW TO – Vinyl record table lamp – Link DIY Dali vinyl record clock […]
Farmer grows pumpkins with human faces, Popular Science 1938 – Link. Related: Halloween @ MAKE – Link. DIY Halloween photo pool – Link. MAKE Halloween, order now! – Link.
Typographic art from artist Justin Quinn – [via] Link & more.
Here’s how to make a handy 5V breadboard mini power supply – Link.
What happens when you cross an LED Throwie with a Koi fish? You get LED Swimmies, a.k.a. Lightfish. Basically they’re just a Throwie sealed inside of a colored plastic fish. Artist Karl Klar did an installation of 500 of these Swimmies (which don’t actually move) in the pond outside of the new Ars Electronica Center […]
