This is a companion post to the Make magazine’s Weekend Projects Podcast I love the look of domes and geometric spheres, and this week we are going to make some out of things that you might find around the house or at a picnic. Making geometric speres is fun, and you end up with something […]
When Richard Feynman was in school he would daydream a lot. I remember a story he told in his autobiography about being in a class in school looking at water running from a faucet and thinking about the curve that water makes as the stream gets thinner. Because he was totally obsessed with math and […]
For this weekend project, I’ve made a Kite Aerial Photography Rig (KAP). This was one of those projects that require remaking multiple times to get it so that it would fly. I started with a VEX robotics kit and then had to make lots of changes to make it lighter. Watch the video to learn […]
This weekend I explore the world of photography from a kite’s point of view. My inspiration was the instructions from Make Volume 1 available in both the print and digital magazines. You can download these instructions as a PDF right here. I had a vex robotics kit and so I used it. It turned out […]
The Weekend Projects Podcast continues with the Rodent Powered Nightlight! Make sure to check out the previous post full of instructions. This project can be found in the print or digital version of Make: 06. The article in the magazine by William Gurstelle, was inspired by the folks over at otherpower.com who came up with […]
Make sure to download the PDF for this project and print it out to look at as you make this project. Also make sure to watch the video that goes along with these instructions! To begin, I needed a rodent wheel. I chose the mouse wheel, because when I visited the pet store, the mice […]
Check out the wallet that Alfons made! No-one is going to be reading the RFID information on his credit cards! I saw the video about making a wallet from tape on the makezine site, and I thought: well why don’t I make one myself. And that’s what I did. Only didn’t I use gaffer tape, […]
