Greetings. The Master Control Program has chosen you to serve your system on the Game Grid. Those of you who continue to profess a belief in the Users will receive the standard substandard training, which will result in your eventual elimination. Those of you who renounce this superstitious and hysterical belief will be eligible to […]
Mister Joshua writes – “I made this modified version of Simon Field’s Film Can Cannon so that I could actually aim and fire it like a gun.” – Link. Related: Build a Film Can Cannon – Link.
Windell writes – “It’s a USB-powered LED lamp. It looks like it would be a little bit floppy, so I’d suggest wrapping some solid copper wire around the cable to make it bend to your will.” – Link.
Tiny Little Life writes – “Speaking of “Bug Suckers”, here is a stand-alone version that I put together a few years ago. Unlike the model featured in Make #6, this one was designed more for outdoor use (to deal with all moths on my back porch). Plus, it works while you sleep.” – Link. Related: […]
Theodore Gray over on Popular Science launched a model rocket using Oreo cookies as fuel (Potassium perchlorate) – ” Food contains an amazing amount of energy. If you don’t believe it, feed candy to some kids and watch them bounce off the walls. Of course, tot-baiting is only one way to turn food energy into […]
Gezortenplotz writes – “Wind across a microphone causes distortion and unwanted noise for videographers and nature recorders while taping outside. The purpose of the microphone ‘blimp’ is to attenuate the wind noise without interfering with the desired sound. Blimps are expensive. This project came in under $40. Mics are interchangeable in this blimp [if the […]
Robin has some tips and suggestions for making your own “Biosphere” – “Biologists call the Earth’s environment and all organisms the Earth’s biosphere. But biosphere is also the name of a man-made and sealed environment, which simulates the earth’s biosphere. This could for example be in a bottle, or a greenhouse. Another (maybe more correct) […]
