I watch the daily news vlog (video blog) called RocketBoom with Amanda Congdon and today MAKE appeared on there! I had shot a video about our 2nd issue for a friend about our podcast article and it was automatically downloaded via ANT, then played. More about ANT here. And go check out the RocketBoom video here.
This fellow built a hovercraft for his son out of junk in his garage using the plans he found online. He used a countertop as the base, a leaf blower as the “lifter”, PVC pip, Goop glue, plastic sheeting and duct tape. Link.
In MAKE 01 readers were challenged with a scenario of being stranded far from civilization with a dead car battery. Tons of amazing responses and earlier we posted the analysis and winners. Here’s what they won- a custom Maker-made T-Shirt, a SWISSMEMORY
USB Victorinox 512MB and this MAKE trophy from William Lidwell of stuffcreators -photos of the Victorinox, packaging and shirt here. Issue 02 (shipping now) will have another great shifter! Be sure to enter!
Amazon has 10 pages of Volume 2 up. Go check’em out- Made on Earth “Report from the world of backyard technology ” Mousey the Junkbot “With a few spare parts, you can turn an old computer mouse into an amusing little robot” DIY home and Toolbox are also up there at the moment. Just a taste, subscribe or order the mag! Link.
MAKE author William Lidwell had his work cut out for him when it came to selecting the winners in MakeShift 01, where readers were challenged with a scenario of being stranded far from civilization with a dead car battery. As he reports, “MAKE readers answered the challenge with audacity and vigor”.
The winners have been selected, and you can read all about it in our web Extra, MakeShift 01: Analysis, Commentary, and Winners.
If you have to be stranded with a dead battery, you’d be lucky to be stranded with a group of MAKE readers. Unless, of course, you were the one who left the lights on. Then they might just hang you over the side of a cliff as part of their solution…
