Al’s project came from the pages of MAKE volume 28, and is a pen that expels yarn instead of ink. When written onto a sticky surface, whatever the user writes becomes tactile, serving the blind and visually impaired.
Wanna shoot fireballs from the palm of your hand? Of course you do. When Joel Johnson set out to fashion his own fireball shooter, he was intent on making one with a minimum of parts that was small enough to be concealed in his hand. He shared his “Orpheus Shooter” build with us back in […]
Our “Better Nerf Gun” in MAKE Volume 29 is a beautifully overengineered Nerf dart blaster that’s built by metal lathing, woodworking, thread tapping, and other labors of love. You’d be proud to display it on the coffee table or above your cubicle as a warning to would-be office assailants. But as soon as we published […]
Want to make a gift to eternity? Nothing says forever quite like a hand-carved stone bowl.
Tom Buchanan, a retired teacher, emailed to let us know he successfully built Owen Tanner’s solar pendulum, as seen in MAKE: Vol. 28, page 146.
Though we’re constantly moving toward more electronic and less paper-based communication, we’ve all got paper we don’t need laying around, be it junk mail, newspaper, receipts, magazines, paper bags, books, or whatever else. If we’re lucky, it ends up in the recycling bin. What about giving old paper new life by making it into new […]
Did someone submit a bogus prison trick from a movie as a MAKE project?
