The cover project from our newest issue of MAKE, Volume 25, is Doug Desrochers’ “$5 Heli-Rocket” (seen above being field tested by intrepid Make: Labs engineering intern Nick Raymond). With a mere $5 worth of materials, including toilet paper tubes, coat hangers, and rubber bands, you can build this high-flying model rocket. Instead of employing […]
It’s Penguin Awareness Day! I had no idea, but I’m all for celebrating a day dedicated to these tuxedo-clad cuties. Elmer’s has an easy penguin print you can make with your little crafters today. Via Elmer’s Twitter Feed
With just five ingredients, and costing only a couple of bucks, Sriracha Chili Sauce probably isn’t something you need to make out of economic necessity. But imagine hosting a pho dinner for some friends and bringing out a batch of homemade Sriracha! You could have a blind taste test to see which one people like […]
Math in your Head Or, Doing Useful Work in a Traffic Jam By Ross Hershberger Equations for electronics math are available anywhere. If you have the excellent Maker’s Notebook, with its reference section and a calculator, you can plug in numbers and get answers to many of your circuitry questions. So why learn to do […]
Hellenistic technology has always fascinated me, especially the work attributed to mathematician, engineer, and inventor Hero (or “Heron”) of Alexandria, one of the world’s first steampunks. Much of the documentation of his work (and likely those of many others of his time) come to us by way of The Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria (or […]
The rain has finally let up here in Northern California and the first hints of what could be spring are starting to emerge. What better way to celebrate the oncoming season of dresses and fair weather than with some fashionable crocheted bike love from Simeli — a bicycle ornamentation company based in the notoriously cycle-friendly […]
I know it’s winter and not really the season for ice cream, but I had a random craving for the “cereal milk” I used to get at Sunrise Mart when I lived in New York years ago. (It’s a packaged Japanese drink that tastes exactly like the milk in the bottom of your honey nut […]
