Amon found the usual post party debris the one morning/afternoon and decided to Hook Up some of the stuff to his computer and make something useful. With some pizza boxes, cups, a computer and Scratch, he made a Skeeball type game. Just like the one at the arcade at the mall, but less hungry for […]
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From the all-important step #2 of this Instructable: “Don’t Poison Gas Attack Yourself, etc.” Useful for anyone who wants to make welds without spending much: Welding is usually the easiest and quickest way to build something. You just put the parts next to each other and weld them. You don’t have to drill bolt holes […]
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Out of all the gadgets that James Bond has used over the past 40 years, he has never been given a laser weapon. While he was given an Omega Laser watch in GoldenEye and Die Another Day, he only used it to cut through the floor of a train and a section of ice. Sure […]
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Here’s an Instructable on building primitive batteries, interesting not so much for its (low-current, low-voltage) results but as a nice overview of a different way of making batteries. Also check out this Wikipedia entry on earth batteries, which I found via this Instructable.
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There are many Instructables about changing your oil, but only one starts like this: I learned to do oil changes in high school speech class. One of the boys worked in a garage. He gave a really great how-to demonstration/speech about changing oil. He gave another about rotating tires, but there isn’t anything complicated about […]
Continue ReadingWhile doing work on the forthcoming The Best of Instructables collection, I ran across this project for building little LED blinky bugs using an AVR Attiny44v. It looks like a great electronics and crafts project for kids and it’s a well-done Instructable. I was certain we’d covered it here on MAKE, but I couldn’t scare […]
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This Instructable shows you how to invert, cut, and refold a cereal box to turn it into a rectangular gift box. Gift Box from a Cereal Box
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