Repurpose – Sierra Magazine’s Craft Column
The Sierra Club’s magazine publishes re-use projects regularly now, because making is a part of environmentalism.
creative reuse
Atari Punk Console in a Fruit Cake Tin
We’ve seen lots of cool Atari Punk Consoles here, over the years, but this rainbow-buttoned build from Peter, in San Diego, is an especially attractive specimen. Click through to the MAKE Flickr pool, below, to see and hear it in action. atari punk console in a fruit cake tin More: Collin’s Lab: Atari Punk Console […]
Laser Oscilloscope Wraps up Year of Hacks
Congrats to MAKE pal Dino Segovis, who just published the 52nd and final project in his one-year Hack a Week series: This cool laser “oscillograph” that modulates an audio input across the beam from a green laser pointer using a linear actuator recovered from a junk hard drive. A spinning mirror provides the time element.
How-To: Manikin Lamp
Ray Alderman’s Manikin Figure Lamp with iPad 01 made a nice splash when we featured it in the MAKE Flickr pool roundup about a month ago, and Ray (aka Whamodyne) just wrote in to let us know that he’s recently posted a cool Instructable about how to make your own.
How-To: Paper Plate Shark Jaws
Concept and tutorial by Jeanette Strole Parks of Off The Cuff Cooking, written up by request for Heather Mann’s Dollar Store Crafts. [via Boing Boing] Make Paper Plate Shark Jaws More:Paper Plate Skeleton
Bike Part Spirograph
Spotted at the recent Cedar Rapids Mini Maker Faire by Steve Hoefer. Looks like a piece of hardboard with a circular hole in it, lined with bike chain, to make an improvised “ring gear,” with variously-drilled chain gears and sprockets that roll around inside it to guide the pens. A similar idea was published by […]
Recycled Firehose Swing
A quick eBay search reveals that, in fact, used fire hoses are quite readily available, and not very expensive. The bentwood seat would be a little more challenging, but as woodbending projects go, that shape wouldn’t make for a very difficult one. Or you could just use an unbent seat. It’s the work of designer […]
