Taking things apart is fascinating. Before you throw away another piece of electronic garbage, disassemble it and try to figure out how it works! There’s still time to participate in the Technojunk Teardown Family Challenge (hint: more than just families can enter), take apart some junk, document it, win tools! Here’s a roundup of our […]
Propaganda flick from the National Association of Manufacturers, but it’s fascinating stuff!
Mike Pantrey, aka Flickr user Mrsuperpants, saw Phil’s post on Friday about Dave’s homemade laminar water jet and “in two evenings of tinkering in the garage, and some time reading up the background over a couple of lunchtimes” produced his own version, shown here. Construction details are available on Mike’s personal site. He cites The Laminar Project Forum as a valuable design resource.
This Rustic Mallet video and step-by-step how-to over on Borganic.net is amazing.
The Chu-Ko-Nu is a 2,400-year-old Chinese repeating crossbow featuring a 10-shot magazine. It was a marvel of mechanical design that was still in use up until the era of gunpowder weapons. Make: Online reader Bjørn sent in a link to maker Leong Kit Meng’s recreation of the Cho-Ko-Nu. The photos are nice, but the instructions […]
Mike Senese, cohost of the Science Channel’s Punkin’ Chunkin’ and Catch It Keep It, rescued this tutorial from Internet oblivion and posted it on his personal site for posterity. [Thanks, Sam!]
Those are some good burgers, dude. J. Kenji Lopez-Alt reverse engineered In-N-Out’s legendary “Spread” and made himself a Double-Double. I’ve been a rabid, if underexposed fan of the cult-ish fast food burger joint since I tried my first Double-Double (that’s two patties, two slices of cheese) a couple years back. As burgers go, it’s an […]
