The fully functional P6*6 camera uses 120 roll film, comes in 35mm and 50mm lengths, and is printable without support even on the tiniest of print beds. It makes an impressive 6cm square negative — about 4 times bigger than a standard 35mm neg. Extrude it today and amaze your friends with a uniquely awesome camera and fantastic pinhole photos.
This project came from my love of taking apart broken electronics and experimenting with the components.
Rotocasting is how the pros make hollow plastic parts — and it’s easy to do at home. Build this DIY rotocaster to slowly spin the mold while your resin cures. It's made from everyday lumber and skate bearings, plus a couple of 3D-printed hypoid gears. Another great project from Make: contributor Matt Stultz.
Use a $4 microcontroller to launch web pages with the push of a button over serial I/O.
How to make an basic electronic color sensor and how to use it to make a color activated lock box
A simple three-switch effects looper for the BeagleBone Black built with open source software.
Five years ago book digitization was the domain of giants — Microsoft and Google. Commercial book scanners cost as much as a small car. Collectively, we tried to fix that. Here's how to build the Archivist — the VW Beetle of book scanners — cheap, durable, and tremendously effective. It’s open source (Raspberry Pi and Canon Hacks Development Kit) and made with simple materials like plywood, bungees, and skateboard bearings. As fast as you can turn the pages, the Archivist photographs them automatically and creates a zip file of the entire book, for conversion to the e-book format of your choice.
Oobleck is a delightful non-Newtonian fluid that exists as a liquid under low-stress situations, but becomes more viscous when agitated or vibrated. Named after a fictional green precipitation in a Dr. Seuss book, the substance is fun on its own, but you can add more awesome by making it glow (with highlighter dye, under a black light) and making it perform (by placing it on a speaker). Be amazed as it comes to life!
Make this fun mini projector just in time for Halloween. It throws a shadow image of a black cat — which then disappears, leaving only his spooky grin!
Bake a bloody thorax cake that oozes with every bite.
At 2012’s East Bay Mini Maker Faire at Park Day School in Oakland, one room became resplendent.
Glen A. Larson could be considered an American hero. He is the television producer responsible for bringing such gems as Battlestar Galactica and Knight Rider to the small screen. The Larson Scanner, named in his honor, can be used for your costume, bike, R/C car, case mod, or — as we did — the Cylon jack-o’-lantern.
