New in the Maker Shed: Trebuchet Kit
Who doesn’t love a good trebuchet? This comprehensive Trebuchet Kit (available in the Maker Shed) is 100% hand made in Michigan by people who spend their free time launching pumpkins.
DIY Projects
TechShop Austin-Round Rock Announced
There’s a new TechShop opening this fall: We are proud to announce the opening of TechShop Austin-Round Rock, located in La Fontera in Round Rock, Texas! TechShop Austin-Round Rock is located at 120 Sundance Parkway, Suite 350, Round Rock, Texas, in the Lowe’s and Sam’s Club shopping center. The building is 17,000 square feet and […]
Do-It-Yourself Civilization in Hackerspace.gr
Sounds way cool! Coming Sunday, September the 2nd, we are going to take a look at the basics of life through the eye of the hexayurt project‘s creator Vinay Gupta that will visit hackerspace.gr. Hexayurt is an open hardware house built in hundreds every year. We will consider materials supply chain, reuse, grid beam, planning […]
Backyard Ballistics Returns With a 2nd Edition
Our friend Bill Gurstelle is dropping an updated version of Backyard Ballistics, one of his trademark flingin’ books and one of his earlier works that made his name as the go-to man for catapulting and exploding. This bestselling guide has been expanded and updated, enabling ordinary folks to construct even more exciting ballistic devices in […]
New in the Maker Shed: Perma-Proto Boards
Have you ever had one of those “why didn’t I think of that” moments? I had one the first time I saw Adafruit’s Perma-Proto Breadboards, now available in the Maker Shed.
Experiments in Garden Hose Hydraulics
Dave Sharp of the Hive76 hackerspace has been playing around with garden hose hydraulics, and the result is rather cool: The pressure in your typical garden hose is nominally around 40 psi or so, so my first hydraulic cylinder should be able to develop about 125 pounds of force if it had really good seals. […]
How-To: Connect 4 Binary Clock
Seeing this old Connect 4 game took me on a nostalgic trip back to the early 80s, sprawled out on our old brown carpeting, spending hours strategizing, stacking the chips, then pulling the lever and watching them all fall. And the fact that three classmates thought to convert it into a binary clock and share […]
