Berto Aussems of Maastricht, the Netherlands, built a trolling motor powered by a drill. Anyone with a cordless drill can make this trolling motor, just from wood. This is a fun project; making it, in a couple of hours, and to navigate on still waters. OK, you have to buy a propellor, a square drillhead, […]
Jenny from Craft Test Dummies is always coming up with new and creative uses for any craft product that she gets her hands on. Case in point, her How to Cut Polymer Clay with the Cricut tutorial takes electronic cutters out of the realm of paper craft, and shows just how versatile they can be […]
Need a fun, kid safe summer project? The Getting Started with Compressed Air Rockets kit from the Maker Shed is perfect for young makers! Just a few pumps of a bicycle pump (not included) will send homemade rockets blasting 200-300 feet into the air! Perfect for families, summer camps, neighborhoods, or just for fun. High quality parts are built to last for years and thousands of launches.
What are the tools every hands-on projecteer needs? To answer that question, we went right to DIYers themselves, specifically the exhibitors at last fall’s World Maker Faire NY event. One tool everyone agreed on is a Multimeter. It’s surprising how much information you can glean from a simple resistance reading or by checking out the voltage drop across a series of LEDs.
Doug Fennell of Horn Lake, Mississippi, just sent us a link to this good-looking two-wheeled coasterbot-style “puck” ‘bot chassis he designed to be laser-cut from 4mm acryli
I was taken by your Tamiya nomination for The Makeys, as I had a ball making something quite different from one of their kits. I was driving to a hobby shop (no surprise there!) at lunch one day. When I pulled into the parking lot of the strip mall, I saw what looked to be an electric bug making large and speedy circles on the asphalt.
These adorable pattern weights from A Spoonful of Sugar make me very, very happy. I used to be a pattern weight skeptic. I would use whatever I had on hand to hold my patterns in place—rocks, tin cans, bottles of wine—only to get frustrated when objects were too light, too bulky, or got in the […]
