HOW TO – Make Cuff Bracelets
Here’s a full tutorial on how to make easy button snap cuffs that are 2 sided. We love the one with Ms. Pac-Man! Link.
Month: October 2006
Svo’s oscillating steam engine
MAKE Flick photo pool member Svofski built a steam engine without needing the usual expensive tools… – “I’ve been long fascinated with steam power. Using some spare time I’d been lucky to have, I started building my model. There are plenty of succesful examples of homebuilt steam models on the net, however all of them […]
HOW TO – Build up a bike
Joe has a good Instructable on hacking together a bike from parts you might find/have/get, he writes – “This is a guide to building up a bike from parts. It should help you get the parts and tools you need to get you pedalling along in no time. It assumes that you have tinkered with […]
What’s in the limited edition MAKE: Pocket Refs?
The Pocket Ref is a great little book with concise all-purpose references featuring hundreds of tables, maps, formulas, constants & conversions AND it still fits in your shirt pocket! We have a limited edition MAKE branded Pocket Ref in the MAKE store and it’s only $12.95 – Link. Or… You can just subscribe to MAKE […]
Cheap BOE-BOTs
Tonyvr writes in with this deal on BOE-BOTs – “Cheap BOE-BOTS are back at MicroCenter again, but at $70 instead of the previous $50. This is still a terrific deal, as list price is $149. I bought 20 kits at $50, and although the boxes were battered, and had “Radio Shack” price stickers on them, […]
35mm DOF adapter project on a Sony DCR-PD100 DVCAM camcorder
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Aaronazz made a really interesting adaptor for his camera, the footage shot with it is beautiful (A DOF is a “depth of field” adaptor to get film-like results from a camera) – photos, link & video.
HOW TO – Make a “Flailing victim” Halloween decoration
Here’s a pretty realistic “Flailing victim” Halloween decoration for your haunted house or for outside your home using a PVC skeleton, Mjeden2006 writes – “The finished body is quite realistic in its movement. The body here has been flailing for as long as an hour continuously without a problem. I needed to ‘sprinkle’ watered down […]