mp4 | mov | hd-appletv | 3gp | 3g2 | pdf | blip | youtube | itunes This weekend, make a human powered siege weapon. Using a human as a counter-weight and PVC piping for the structure, this catapult can hurl water balloons 100 yards or more. For this project I joined forces with siege […]
The Make: PDFcast this week is an excerpt from William’s bok The Art of the Catapult. Download the pdf to get the detailed instructions to make this siege weapon. PDF Link This flinging machine is optimized for water balloons, but we used a small plastic cow. Subscribe in itunes to get both the video and […]
I’ve enjoyed Gareth’s writing for a while and it was great to finally meet him at Maker Faire. He was giving workshops on how to make Mousey the Junkbot and I got him to explain a little bit about it on tape and got inspired to make my own Mousey. Gareth wrote the article that […]
It’s a three day weekend and if you haven’t had a chance to watch the weekend projects podcast, now is the time. You can watch the video and read the pdf and learn about brain waves and how to make a brain machine! This is what it looks like in itunes. If you subscribe in […]
ipod|mp4|mov|hd-appletv|3gp|3g2|pdf|itunes This weekend, learn how to hack your brain by making Mitch Altman’s Brain Machine! It flashes LEDs into your eyes and beeps sounds into your ears to make your brain waves sync up into beta, alpha, theta, and delta brainwaves! Mitch invents cool things that make the world a better place. He’s well known […]
This weekend, get set to hack your brain! Brain waves go from delta waves at about 1/2-4Hz to Gamma waves at 30-100Hz. The brain machine flashes lights in the range of these brainwaves in a sequence that is programmed to take you through the experience of meditation. One of the interesting effects of flashing the […]
Carlos made an incredible time lapse video of Maker Faire 2007 shot @ Fiesta Hall across from the giant human powered nose picking machine …. Link (mov).
