Carlos found this little safe in the trash. It’s got stuff locked away inside. He wants in, but doesn’t want to destroy the safe. So he created a Pololu Micro Serial Servo Controller-powered, servo-controlled, robot safe-cracker, house in an old PC power supply. The results? So far: safe: 1, bot-cracker: 0. Turns out, the servo […]
I love landing on various industrial designers’ websites and seeing their creativity and thought processes at work. Freelance designer Shay Shafranek has a number of inspiring designs on his site, everything from electronic rulers to flower vase designs to expandable cardboard breadboxes to inline skate motor-assists. Shay Shafranek
When writer and maker Hi Sibley died in 1971, the editors of Popular Mechanics dubbed him the dean of do-it-yourself. Hi wrote hundreds of articles over the years for Popular Science and Popular Mechanics, many of which are now available online through Google Books. Howard Fink has created a Hi Sibley blog and bibliography that […]
Folks, don’t forget (or maybe you were unaware): we have an events calendar here on the site where you can submit your own happenings. We get tons of event submissions each week, for Dorkbots, Make: City events, hackerspace workshops, TechShop classes, geek festivals, science fairs, and the like — all awesome and worthy activities. We […]
On the forums at Crazy Builders, a maker named “Technician” has posted a series of videos and photos explaining how his quick dump valve high-speed marshmallow cannon works. The cannon is made from some PVC pipe, a propane camping lantern bottle, and some 1″ pipe. It’s a scaled-down version of a larger T-shirt cannon he […]
Jim Seller’s made this amazing box full of gorgeously-machined art-widgets as a gift for a friend. It doesn’t actually do anything, except make people feel really good looking at the craftsmanship and love involved. Jim wanted to make something in the style of a 19th century scientific instrument. He calls it the ETD (Earth Tremor […]
Okay, mom, dad, so maybe you’re feeling a little of the ol’ economic pinch and the idea of stuffing the brood into the family cargo pod, filling its belly full of precious dinosaur squeezin’s, and setting off for Wally World just doesn’t sit comfortably on your bottom line this summer. You’ve decided to stay at […]
