MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
Highlights from the Flickr pool this week include some great shots from World Maker Faire New York, a fantastic R/C flying wing silhouetted against the sunset, a ladder made from welded rebar, and more! Check it out!
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Top 10: Stupid Plastic Tricks
We have hundreds of posts in the archives with the keyword โplasticโ in the title, but many of them are about particular objects made from plastic, rather than general methods for working with plastics. So I went through and cherry-picked ten of what I considered to be the more inventive and unusual methods-based โplasticsโ posts. The photos arenโt sexy, but if youโre interested in weird things you can do with plastic, at home, this is the post for you. And some of these methods will probably turn out to be not so โstupid,โ after all
MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
Leading off our Flickr pool round-up this week is a hot little red-headed astromech from Atlanta Mini Maker Faire, photographed by Chris Palmer. Other highlights include wooden gears, a homemade high-polish “dishing hammer,” and some more workshop pr0n. Check it out!
Skull Nickels
Notably bitchin’ subclass of hobo_nickel. This is but one of seven examples from Colossal’s recent round-up.
MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
This week’s Flickr pool roundup includes some sweet Halo props, impressive amateur astrophotography, a Viking helmet with a fiber-optic mohawk, and more! Check it out!
Top 10: Knifemaking
Knives are a major “gateway drug” for many a young maker. They were for me, certainly. One of the first things I ever remember being proud of making was a cocobolo replacement handle (mounted with homemade “mosaic” pins) to repair my mother’s favorite paring knife. (Coincidentally, both skills are covered in this round-up.)
MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
Highlights from this week’s MAKE Flickr pool roundup include some lovely long-exposure double-pendulum light painting, a beautifully-built and -shot cigar-box guitar, and an awesome WWII-era GE searchlight stabbing into the night sky with its 800,000,000 candela beam. Check ’em out.
