Funnypolynomial framed up the Game of Life kit, nice! via Ladyada. I’ve been fascinated by Life since I first read of it in Scientific American, many years ago (October 1970!). The Maker Shed store had a couple of sales so I bought a total of 6 Game of Life boards. I assembled them as a […]
Assembly of the Gakken Mini-Theremin kit @ warp-speed – complete with error correction! Mini-Theremin
[Pictured above, top to bottom: 1946 The Fleet Type Submarine manual, manual for the 1988 SR-71 Blackbird Environmental Control Systems, 1942 B-17F Flying Fortress Pilot Familiarization Manual] We’re hard at work on the next issue of MAKE, Volume 17, which will have a special “Lost Knowledge” section. For that, I’ve been on the hunt for […]
Gakken’s New Edison-style Cup Phonograph Kit is a cylinder recorder that uses a needle to cut sound waves onto plastic cups. This kit lets you relive the excitement of Thomas Edison as he successfully recorded and played back sound for the first time on a similar cylinder recording system back in 1877. Thomas Edison first […]
Here’s a simple solder fume filter/fan made from a plastic CD spool case, aquarium filter material, and some scrounged electronics. Fume Extractor [via the Make: Flickr Pool]
Here’s the MAKE 2008 gift guide from MAKE volume 16 (PDF). If you have your printed copy of MAKE it’s on page 18, a pull out, and in the digital edition it’s at the end. I also wanted to post up a great article by our associate publisher Dan Woods called “The value of a […]
Check out these handy tips from Cool Tools, including this one: Spray-On Cooking Oil As Expedient Wetsuit Remover As a triathlete, I practice the transition during every training session, meaning I try to remove my wetsuit in super fast time. Every Friday last summer I swam in a lake in my Promotion triathlon wetsuit. I […]
