Pocket Reflectors for Cycling
Sew some pants pocket reflectors to gain visibility for night cycling. They tuck into the pockets for storage and then flip out easily and quickly for riding.
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Digital TV Coat Hanger Antenna
Easily disassemble a coat hanger to make an affordable antenna for your digital television. Stop fighting with your existing antenna and make your own.
High-Resolution Spectrograph
The first spectroscopes used glass prisms to split light into colors, but Fraunhofer found that an array of closely spaced wires had the same effect. Today we call these arrays of tiny slits diffraction gratings.
LED Jellies Lamp Stand
This is a modification of the LED jellies contributed by Angela Sheehan. For design instructions for jellies, check out Angela’s project. For this project you will need to know how to use a soldering iron, a hot glue gun, and a drill. WARNING: Do not multitask with these tools! They can be very dangerous!
Take a Hidden Picture
Take a picture is a fine-art project by artists Brad Blucher and Kyle Clements. In the exhibit, the human eye see is only able to see blank surfaces (in our case, blank canvases). People walk up to the show space and see blank canvases hanging on the wall. They see absolutely nothing, then make some […]
Listening to Satellites with a Homemade Yagi Antenna
One of my favorite things to do is talk with other ham radio operators through satellites or the International Space Station (ISS). To do this, I stand on a rooftop and tune a handheld multiband radio while tracing the orbit of a satellite or the ISS with my homemade yagi antenna.
Gingerboard Houses
By Billie Lopez and Tootie Maldonado Last December, we were looking for a creative way to reuse the extra shipping boxes we had lying around our shop. We came up with these “gingerboard” houses, which are an unexpected and fun way to package gifts for family and friends. You can also keep them for yourself […]
