How-To: Sock Bunny
Who needs a sock monkey when you can have a sock bunny, right? Heidi Kenney of My Paper Crane shows you how it’s done.
Year: 2010
Interactive Audio Sculpture Garden
Makers Stephanie McCarty and Andrew Siu built this fun interactive audio device using a couple of Arduino and some miscellaneous parts.
Tilt-N-Trap 3D-printed mousetrap
Mark Fuller sent us this video demoing his 3D-printed, humane mousetrap. Love this simple gravity-powered design. Mark says he made the trap with the help of the rapid prototyping class at Pennsylvania College of Technology (www.pct.edu). The device was printed on the Dimension uPrint, in little a under six hours. Tilt-N-Trap (Mouse Trap) on Thingiverse […]
Build your own variable-terrain putting green
One of my favorite features in Design News has a new “Gadget Freak”, fun read – Why putt golf balls into a paper cup when you can have your own variable-terrain putting green? This course designed by Mark Giannasi, Aaron Gaylord, Brody Collins, Thomas Boileau and Maiki Vlahinos offers players three cups and three skill […]
Remote-controlled “RoboPlow”
Rob Klinkey (Charles, IL) built this scrappy (scrapey?) little R/C snow plow with a 50″ blade, 6-wheel drive, 660 amps of power, 10 watts of LED lights for night plowing, and an on-board webcam. I like how it looks like a cross between a gas grill and a coffin. RoboPlow From the pages of MAKE: […]
Flashback: 2-Mile Camera Remote
We just shipped the newest issue of MAKE, Volume 22, to the printer, and my head is swimming with all things remote control, which is the theme. This got me to thinking about previous remote control projects that have graced the many pages of MAKE. Necessity is indeed the mother of invention, and maker Tom […]
Featured Maker: Sonodrome
Kat and Jim run Sonodrome from Tynesmouth, UK, on the northeast Channel coast. Besides the hardware featured here and in the Makers Market, they also write and distribute music software, including a digital effects rack designed for their Posc kit.