Mactech’s homemade New Year’s eve ball! It’s 20 feet tall, made of two pieces of 3/4″ EMT with a coupler that wasn’t strong enough, so I taped some shims along the joint…guy wires to keep it from keeling over sideways. There are a couple of pulleys to hoist the ball.
My internet friend, David Erwin, had a crisis on his hands; the Christmas tree was a “brown, shedding, fire hazard and it ended up in the front yard on the 23rd.” Well, being a ShopBot owner (as well as the owner of the best darned mid-century modern door company out there, Crestview Doors) he did […]
Every year there are lists and list of New Year’s resolutions, we’re not going to do that here at MAKE. This years it’s all about what you plan to make! I asked our team and advisory board to send me what they plan to MAKE in 2009 and here is what some of them are […]
Need something festive to do with your old Barbie collection? Try making a Barbie wreath! It’s a multi-holiday decoration, as you could use it for Halloween, too.
My pick for best gift of ’08, Boris writes – My sister suffers from seasonal affective disorder, also known as winter depression. A commonly prescribed therapy is light therapy – about thirty minutes of bright light in the morning. Bright in this context means more than 10 000 Lumens. You can of course buy commercial […]
Game programmer Jack Kern took time out from coding pixels and turned his house into a holiday color organ using Processing – This is my first attempt at a computer controlled light show for our Christmas lights. Everything was DIY including the software which I wrote in Processing (processing.org). Simple wiring using parallel port output […]
Brad sends this about his son’s gift project: For Christmas this year, Lucas made his grandmom a battery powered amp for her guitar. This was a big project – first time with a soldering iron. Worked out well with only one minor burn. He did 80% of the soldering and drilled all the holes for […]
