Gareth Branwyn, who authored the beambot article in Make issue 6, wrote up a cool article about Zach DeBord’s twin-engine solarroller. This thing is a beambot hotrod! Zach on building BEAM Roller circuits: “I usually build engines in a batch for later use. In the image below, you can see that there are sockets on […]
Daisung says, “I’ve uploaded some photos of my analogue phone + old Nokia phone. I’m currently overseas so I’ve had to leave it behind, but every time I’ve used it, I got great reactions out of people who were extremely curious. The handset works just like a regular phone by the way!” Link. Update 9/1: […]
David Harris sent in some pics of tshirts he made, both are innovations of the bleach idea from my podcast. Way to go David! So here are two shirts I made inspired by the spray bleach idea. A couple of months ago I started getting into the whole stencil art thing and I had made […]
Lenore says, “I thought you might like our how-to on painting using stickers for masking. Demonstrated with pin boxes and a lunchbox used for sewing supplies. Would be perfect for personalizing your psp carrying case.” Link.
DIY street legal luge + awesome helmet = RAD Back in the late seventies, I was a skateboarder. I would find the biggest hill I could and bomb down that thing as fast as I could. I didn’t do tricks or flips. I was a gravity junky. 10 years and some common sense later, I […]
Ok, simple DIY hacks have been around for a while, but Flickr is rolling out the red carpet on geotagging your photos. If you just want to jump in and start geotagging, open the new ‘map’ tab in the organizr and go for it. It’s all drag and drop and easy to figure out. Since […]
A few months ago, I wrote a post about some making a Rube Goldberg Contraption in the forest and we made a fun, but shaky, video. We resolved to do it again sometime. The Discovery Channel stepped in and motivated us to do just that and so with a TV crew on the way, Jesse, […]
