Make Your Own Catapult Out of PVC Piping!
This weekend, get some PVC and build a human powered catapult. Bre Pettis joins forces with Bill Gurstelle, seige weapon builder extraordinaire! Fetchez La Vaca!
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DIY Vampire Fangs
Bre Pettis brings in Eric Skiff to show us how to make realistic vampire fangs!
Create Teeny Tiny Solar Insect Robots
One of the great things about these little bots is that you can make them from scavenged materials. Use parts from broken electronics and bring them back to life as little robots!
Laser Graffiti – Laser Tag with GRL Vienna
This week, I met with the gentlemen of Graffiti Research Lab Vienna, aka, GRLv, and they were kind enough to break it on down and show me how to set up a laptop, camera, projector, and laser to be a nondestructive and awesome graffiti tool.
Get more info at graffitiresearchlab.at
Make a Book with a Secret Compartment
Learn how to make a book that can hide things!
Make a T-Shirt Cannon
Bre Pettis and William Gurstelle collaborate to make a t-shirt cannon out of parts from the hardware store. More info at makezine.com/podcast
Snail Mail Push Alerts
You can get iPhone push notifications from lots of online services, but what if you want something from your home to send you alerts? Learn how to get iPhone push notifications when your letter carrier delivers your mail with this Arduino project. No matter where you are, you’ll be the first to know when the latest volume of MAKE magazine is delivered!
More information about this project (including the code) can be found here: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/12/snail_mail_push_alerts.html
