Like Doctor Frankenstein scouring the countryside for dead bodies to put together, so you, the camera hacker will scour garage sales, thrift stores and ebay to find old cameras to rip apart and put back together in creative new ways. Watch this video to learn how to take apart two cameras to make one super […]
Download the four pages of PDF instructions to get the scoop on how to rip apart a 6×9 folding bellows camera and a holga and put them together to make a wide angle medium format camera. If you load 35mm film in it, you’ll get an image that is 35mmx85mm and the work you produce […]
Ever since I heard about Nitinol, a shape-changing metal alloy, I’ve been wanting to play with it. In this video, I make a completely functional, but completely unnecessary lightswitch, put together a nitinol robot kit, an inch-bot and have a robot race! I’m confident that you can figure out how to make cars and contraptions […]
This weekend it’s time for a robot race! Put together some robots and race them for fun. I started this week by learning about nitinol, which is a shape changing metal alloy made up of nickel and titanium. I did some brainstorming. What could you do with a wire that I can activate to make […]
In this episode of weekend projects, you will learn how to bring a rain of apples and pumpkins upon the earth. For the Johnny, an apple shooter, I used a bbq igniter to ignite the fuel. After doing some research, I’ve found that my muzzles are too short. The volume of the muzzles should be […]
In this episode of weekend projects, I make a spud gun and teach you how to make one too. In the process, I get hit with a potato, shocked by a stun gun, caught by security, and attempt to obliderate a pumpkin. How can you resist? This video podcast was inspired by William Gurstelle’s article […]
You still have over a week to make an LED pumpkin. Go check out the Weekend Projects Podcast: Make A Programmable LED Pumpkin and then download the pdf instructions and you’re good to go. To make it easy, subscribe in itunes and have the video and the pdf instructions downloaded automatically for you!
