With a trebuchet, you can smash your enemy’s castle or at least fling the heads of enemy spies into their courtyard. In the old days, the most important metric of a trebuchet is that it can fire farther than your enemy’s archers can shoot their arrows! In this podcast you’ll see how to build a […]
A trebuchet is kind of like a catapult, but it’s optimized with a sling and a hinged counterweight to make it more effective. Download the pdf to learn the basics of making a paperclip trebuchet and a medium sized trebuchet that can throw eggs. Cut your lumber,l drill holes, and screw it all together! Add […]
We featured Clocky in MAKE 03 of 2005, it’s an alarm clock that makes cute noises and runs away from you in the morning when you need to get up, it’s like an annoying pet, in a good way. It’s shipping now and we’ve purchased one to kick around (literally)… We have some photos of […]
This Make: Video Podcast brings you another tutorial featuring hardware hacker Joe Grand. This weekend, dust off that multimeter and learn how to use it! In this video you’ll learn how to check for continuity, measure resistance and measure voltage. These measurements are really handy to have in your bag of tricks if you are […]
In this PDF, you can read about how to do some basic measurements with a multimeter. Watch the video and make sure to download the pdf to get all the juicy details. Or subscribe in itunes and it will be downloaded automatically for you! – PDF Link Here are some bonus links to learn more […]
In this Weekend Projects podcast, Bre Pettis is joined by circuit bender Justin Gerardy to explain how to circuit bend. Then we bent up a Speak and Read and an Omnichord. With the omnichord, we found everything by probing around for cool sounds. If you’ve never done this, you’ve gotta try it out and circuit […]
In this weeks Make: PDF Podcast, you’ll download a good chunk of circuit-bending instructions. First you’ll notice the photos of the Speak and Read and Omnichord circuit-bending projects and then you’ll find Reed Ghazala’s Incantor Tutorial for making a machine from the Speak and Spell family come to life. Watch the video and make sure […]
