Farm-Fresh EMG Controller via Air Guitar Hero
The MIT MEDIK project is using the Air Guitar Hero article from MAKE vol. 29 to help develop “agricultural prosthetics” for farmers who have lost limbs.
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Pulse Sensor Kits, Lovingly Hand-Assembled in New York
The Pulse Sensor Kit (MAKE Volume 29) is assembled by us. Fans of Frederick Taylor’s “time and motion studies” will enjoy this time-lapse video of our assembling about 800 kits to go out into the world.
Make: Beta Team — Join Us!
Meet new people and make new things — apply to join the MAKE Beta Team!
Telescope Made Out of Old Hockey Sticks
Jeff Stone and his wife Susan built a telescope out of hockey sticks.
Real Tools for Kids
Recently, while looking online for woodworking tools appropriately sized for my preschool daughter, I came across some construction sets geared toward children. Thinking fondly of the sets I had when I was little, I looked closely to see if I could find one suited for my kids. I was intrigued by one kit that promised […]
Simple Shop Vac to Hovercraft Mod
Shop Vacs are essential in the workshop, but sometimes the casters seem to have a mind of their own. How about using the vacuum’s discharge air to make it obediently float behind you? That’s exactly what maker Bill Wells did, and his how-to appears on the pages of MAKE Volume 29. Bill essentially took off […]
Eureka! — Danger
The latest installment of Roy Doty’s comic strip, “Eureka!”
