MAKE blasts into orbit and beyond with our DIY SPACE issue. Put your own satellite in orbit, launch a stratosphere balloon probe, and analyze galaxies for $20 with an easy spectrograph! We talk to the rocket mavericks reinventing the space industry, and renegade NASA hackers making smartphone robots and Lego satellites. Of course, as usual, […]
We’re holding open auditions for video makers here at MAKE! Here’s Matt Richardson‘s entry, an awesome keyboard hack that lets you control your Google Reader (or any other keyboard-shortcut application) with the press of a foot pedal. He writes: Here’s a how-to video for an easy, but very useful peripheral hack. It’s for creating a […]
Long before the dawn of digital music, folks employed the power of the electric color organ (aka “light organ”) to add some synced visuals to their hi-fi experience. Schematics for building such a beast based on AC power and incandescent bulbs can be be found fairly easily on the web, but plans for comparable LED-based […]
Turn a toy gyroscope into a motorized gyrocar and make it ride on skinny tracks. Thanks go to Matthew Gryczan for the original article in MAKE, Volume 23. To download The Gyrocar video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Gyrocar article in MAKE Volume 23 and you can see that in […]
This ride, built by the dastardly danger-hackers at the Madagascar Institute, scares the daylights out of me. But some men are braver than I am. Like Tim O’Reilly (yes, that Tim O’Reilly) who didn’t seem too apprehensive about straddling a pulse jet welded to a glorified swing set. I don’t know about him, but my […]
Make a mysterious electronic switch that only you know how to light up! Thanks go to J. Tregre for the original article in MAKE, Volume 23. To download The Mystery Electronic Switch video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Mystery Electronic Switch article in MAKE Volume 23 and you can see […]
Make a silver Firefox pendant using some basic jewelry making tools and turn your favorite web browser into a fashion statement in this week’s CRAFT Video. To get the foxy template, check out Tobi Leingruber’s Foxbling on Thingiverse. Subscribe to the CRAFT Podcast in iTunes, download the m4v video directly, or watch it on YouTube.
