Build an amazing optical toy that plays tricks on your brain. Thanks go to Rob Hartmann for the original article in MAKE, Volume 05. To download The $10 Pseudoscope MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete $10 Pseudoscope article in MAKE, Volume 05 “$10 Pseudoscope” and you can see that in […]
Build an amazing optical toy that plays tricks on your brain. Thanks go to Rob Hartmann for the original article in MAKE, Volume 05.View the PDF of this project. and then subscribe to MAKE Magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend.
From the MAKE Flickr pool Andy posted pics of this here classically styled elastic launcher with a tung oil/selective stain finish. He notes it’s still a work in progress – either way, looks pretty darn ‘snappy’ as is.
I love this funky little vibrobot, made from a mobile phone vibrartor, keypad, a clothespin, and some wire. Vibroroach More: Jar-lid vibrobot Vibrobot from a speaker and pull-cord toy HOW TO – Make a Bristlebot a tiny directional …
Surprise! A classic pull-toy phone that really works. By Frank E. Yost…. I remember making pretend phone calls on my Fisher-Price Chatter Telephone when I was 7 or 8, and wondering if it was possible to turn it into a real phone. That question stayed with me, and when I saw a Chatter Telephone and […]
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Micah’s Lego Sky project incorporates an Ikea LED light strip and touchpad control – The Altoids tin has the modified driver circuit: It’s the original circuit board with the microcontroller removed, then a homemade Arduino clone to control it. The orange box is an old Cirque PS/2 touchpad, removed […]
Make a summertime sprinkler system for the kids out of PVC
