Update: JonM just posted up his wrapup! – Link We had 12 people on the ground looking for our high altitude balloon and found a friend to take us up in a Cessna 182 to scan over 100 square miles of farmland. Here’s a video of the launch! – mov Link Despite herculean efforts, our […]
The payload is pink and bright orange and it’s lost. It’s the ultimate easter egg hunt ever! We arrived in Coulee City late last night and launched today at 3:30. Our little balloon did great, but it is lost at the moment! 3ric writes on our wiki, Our altitude was not 300,000 feet, as our […]
mp4|mov|hd|3gp|3g2|pdf|itunes This weekend is a great time for a paper airplane contest! Get your friends together, print out the pdf and you’re all set for a fun time! If you know how to make cool paper airplanes with different designs, make sure to take pictures and upload them to the Make: Flickr Pool!
These paper airplanes are for the person who wants to break out of their dart habit. There are millions of cool designs out there, but these two are easy and will impress your family and friends… unless they are hardcore paper sculptors. Download the pdf and follow the directions and you’ve got the designs for […]
mp4|mov|3gp|3g2|itunes In this podcast I show how to make this little kit which is a hardware version of a computer program. In this game, little lights die if they are crowded or lonely and new ones come to life if there is the right amount of parents around it!
Here are some photos of the kit and instructions of the game of life all wrapped up in a pdf. Link You can buy the kit here: Link Check it out on wikipedia here: Link Try out a fun software version here: Link
In this special edition of the Weekend Project Podcast, Bre Pettis of Make: Magazine brings special guest Joe Grand to the podcast for the Awesome Electronics Workshop. Joe is a hardware hacker and shows you two simple projects to get you started programming with the basic stamp. Make an LED blink and make a little […]
