Start out your monster making experience by reading the tutorial found in CRAFT, Volume 06. Next, crack open the DIY Mini Monster kit and hand-sew your first adorable little monster. When you’re all done, use the included Maker’s Notebook to sketch out some new designs. Before you know it, your entire house will be overrun by tons of plush monsters!
This FX Master Bundle includes all 5 of our Effects Master Class DVDs! Each DVD is 3 hours long and packed with lessons taught by professional artists, most of whom work in Hollywood at effects houses
Hiraga Gennai (1729-79) was an Edo period Japanese pharmacologist, physician, author, painter, and inventor who is well known for his Erekiteru (electrostatic generator). This cool little box replicates his early work in creating static charge.
We’ve come a long way from the Peashooter Era: with the advent of modern household products and office supplies–binder clips, clothespins, rubber bands, ballpoint pens, toothpicks, paper clips, plastic utensils, and (of course) matches and barbeque lighters–troublemakers of all stripes have the components needed to build an impressive, if somewhat miniaturized, arsenal.
Features a 20-key keypad, a single 7-segment LED, and 7 individual LEDs, and comes with 7 bits of software built in: an organ (basic tone generator), sound hit game, whack-a-mole, tennis, timer, music player, and Morse code generator. It’s a fun, retro kit, just begging to be hacked!
Ingenuity has met its match in frequent Make Magazine contributor Cy Tymony. In his book, Sneaky Green Uses for Everyday Things, Cy combines the sneaky fun of his Sneaky Uses series with the growing interest in green living. The result is an easy-to-practice manual for conserving energy.
Written for reasonable risk takers and suburban dads who want to add more excitement to their lives, this daring combination of science, history, and DIY projects explains why danger is good for you and details the art of living dangerously.
