Ever since I heard about Nitinol, a shape-changing metal alloy, I’ve been wanting to play with it. In this video, I make a completely functional, but completely unnecessary lightswitch, put together a nitinol robot kit, an inch-bot and have a robot race! I’m confident that you can figure out how to make cars and contraptions […]
This weekend it’s time for a robot race! Put together some robots and race them for fun. I started this week by learning about nitinol, which is a shape changing metal alloy made up of nickel and titanium. I did some brainstorming. What could you do with a wire that I can activate to make […]
Part robotic plant life, part techno-sculpture, these desktop toys are easy and fun to make, the pummer! – and hey, it’s Friday so here’s a free article just for our blog readers from the pages of MAKE 08 – Toys and games. Click here to download the PDF, or get this PDF and many others […]
I think this is one of the most interesting uses of Comic Life (comic book creation software)… Josh Administrative Director of Locksport International writes – “Locksport International is proud to provide a simple, visual guide to lock picking. It is our hope that beginners will find this useful in learning the basic skills of picking […]
Volume 8 of MAKE features pinball machine restoration in its Toys and Games section. In this Maker File, we visit the Lucky Ju Ju Pinball Arcadium in Alameda, California. Michael Schiess is the proprietor of Lucky Ju Ju, and a group of us went there to check out the place and take some photograph of […]
Artist Halli Civelek made this fun paper robot-like toy, he’s given us permission to post the PDF, so you can make your own too! [via] – Link. Click here to download the PDF, or get this PDF and many others including our audio and video via iTunes (RSS 2.0 feed).
In this episode of weekend projects, you will learn how to bring a rain of apples and pumpkins upon the earth. For the Johnny, an apple shooter, I used a bbq igniter to ignite the fuel. After doing some research, I’ve found that my muzzles are too short. The volume of the muzzles should be […]
