Month: June 2006

A view from 66,000 feet up

A view from 66,000 feet up

MAKE Flickr photo pool member Jcoxon77’s writes – “View from the side camera on Pegasus I at approx 66,000ft. The Pegasus High Altitude Balloon project is a UK based amateur student run project that involves launching payloads to “Near Space” (between an altitude of 60,000ft (20km) and 325,000ft (99km). This is achieved through the use […]

Acrylic puzzles

Acrylic puzzles

Check out these amazing acrylic puzzles from MAKE Flickr photo pool member Fibra! They look like something Superman’s dad would give his kid – “This extremely difficult cube puzzle is made of 6 piecees of laser cut acrylic. I made it in different colours and 2 sizes, 35 and 55mm. It could be assembled/disasembled in […]

Cosmic poppers kit

Cosmic poppers kit

This looks like a lot of fun (and an simple kit to make) – “This very unusual kit emits random pops and random explosions of bright white light when it is in the dark (kit has a CDS cell to sense the absence of light). This kit produces one of the most unusual “out-of-this-world” effects. […]