HOW TO – Shave a deck of cards
This video shows you how to shave a deck of cards so that you can perform many common card tricks. Make a “Magic” Deck of Playing Cards – Link
Toys and Games
Celebrating LEGO’s 75th Anniversary
In honor of LEGO’s 75th anniversary, DIY Life has put together a list of 23 of their favorite LEGO projects online (many of which we’ve already covered here). The one seen above is an amazing, working Guitar Hero game controller modeled after the Gibson Explorer. LEGO’s 75th anniversary: 23 DIY LEGO ideas – Link Related: […]
HOW TO – Hack The Spy Ear and reverse engineer a circuit
Biotele writes – This instructable introduces the venerable Spy Ear in details and my way to reverse engineer a circuit. Why does this device deserves its own instructable?: You can buy a Spy Ear for a dollar! It can amplify sounds up to 60 dB or a factor of a 100. It has a self […]
A Stirling engine in a teacup
This attractive cup-perched craft project is actually a working papercraft model of a Stirling engine being sold by a Germany science novelty catalog. Sitting on your tea or coffee cup, the heat (or cold) from within will power the engine for up to an hour. The kit costs EUR21.90 (around US$30). The Stirling engine kit […]
Model, sport rocketry reference source
If you read Bill Gurstelle’s “Happy Blastoff” piece, about last year’s LDRS (Large Dangerous Rocket Ships) event, in MAKE Vol. 10, and it whet your appetite for building some LDRS of your own, INFOCentral is for you. Maintained by Rocketry Online, it’s a decent beginner’s online reference library covering all aspects of rocket design, construction, […]
Wiimote as car accelerometer
This fairly simple hack uses a Nintendo Wii remote to capture G-force readings in a car, dump it to a CSV (Comma-Separated Values) text file, and then graph it via Excel. The results aren’t the most precise, but apparently good enough to give you some useful feedback on car mods. Wii Remote Measurements [via] – […]
HOW TO – Track (and document) currency
Remember when your momma used to tell you: “Wash your hands after touching that money. You don’t know where it’s been!” Well, now you can reply: “I do so! Let’s see: it first showed up in Dayton, Ohio, five years ago, at a Sonic drive-thru, then it headed south, then west, spending a lot of […]
