Make Your Own Catapult Out of PVC Piping!
This weekend, get some PVC and build a human powered catapult. Bre Pettis joins forces with Bill Gurstelle, seige weapon builder extraordinaire! Fetchez La Vaca!
Month: January 2011
Awesome Electronics Workshop LCD and GPS
Bre Pettis teams up with Hardware Hacker Joe Grand to show you how to integrate LCDs and GPS into your electronics projects. Then they put these two things together on a basic stamp and create a portable GPS tracking system and go geocaching!
DIY Vampire Fangs
Bre Pettis brings in Eric Skiff to show us how to make realistic vampire fangs!
Make a Theremin
In this podcast Bre Pettis makes a theremin from a kit by harrison instruments. A theremin is a musical instrument invented in Russia in 1918.
Walkotron!
Bre Pettis and Eric Beug create a mellotron-like instrument out of walkmans and then go crazy and hack a sequencer into an arduino! Step by step instructions available tomorrow in a pdf at makezine dot com slash podcast.
Intro to the Arduino
Joe Grand and Bre Pettis bring you another Awesome Electronics Workshop. This week learn about the Arduino, an open-source microcontroller board.
How to Make a Foxhole Radio
During World War II, GIs in the field built really amazing simple radios to listen too. These were made with materials that they could get their hands on and were small enough to carry around in a big pocket. You can modify this design if you want to set it up so that it’s tuneable too! To see all the plans, go to makezine dot com slash podcast!
