Our Mechanics theme brought to mind San Francisco Bay Area kinetic sculptor Reuben Margolin, one of my all-time favorite artists. He makes mind-blowing, moving art based on tiny observations in nature. His collection of waves has the ability to quiet, soothe, and inspire awe in the viewer. Margolin combines math and simple materials (and insanely […]
Make: Live airs tonight! Don’t miss our mechanics episode where guests Lenore Edman, Windell Oskay, and Dustyn Roberts join us to show off their kinetic projects. We’ll also be giving away some motors from Digi-Key to one lucky member of the chat. Giveaway prizes: 5 Parallax continuous rotation servos 2 Portescap 12V stepper motors 1 […]
Instructable user Bruno created this fun real life Super Mario Bros. coin block, which pops out legal tender when it’s hit from the bottom. A 555 timer controls a servo motor to push the coins out of the top while an MP3 player plays the appropriate sound effect. Luckily for us, Bruno painstakingly detailed the […]
We’ve published the rules and guidelines for the 2011 NASA Make: Challenge, which invites makers to propose kits that high school students can build in their classrooms to explore a scientific, technical, or math concept by flying the kits on a suborbital rocket flight. Proposals for the NASA Make: Challenge should be submitted electronically to […]
Mod your DSLR camera’s body cap so that you can shoot digital pinhole photos, HDR, time lapse or even pinhole video!
For more information about this project, check out:
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/03/how-to-dslr-pinhole-photography.html
We’ve featured our fair share of pinhole photography projects here at MAKE, and it’s no wonder. As complicated as cameras have become, it seems amazing that photos can be taken with something as simple as a tiny hole in a shoe box. But if you still yearn for all the creature comforts that a modern-day […]
A fresh batch of Make: Electronics Components Pack 1 are en route to the Maker Shed warehouse. Order yours now, and it will ship by March 25th. The first companion pack to our wildly popular Make: Electronics book covers all of the experiments (1-11) from the first two sections of the book. We’ve spent (many!) […]
