Make your own scratch art board at a fraction of the cost, which you can use to create beautiful and dramatic designs. Unlike most high-grade art materials, this recipe does not contain any animal products.
Halloween is coming up.
For the upcoming Nashville Mini Maker Faire, NashMicro is hosting a booth where they will be allowing participants to build “sonic screwdrivers”.
Learn how to use solar panels for both battery charging and for sensing when light has dropped below a certain threshold. Learn how to use an Arduino Micro for power management, and combine these two skills into an exciting classic "cricket" noisemaker that only turns on when the sun has faded into the night.
Here's how to build a blaster that unleashes carbon dioxide gas to launch T-shirts and other projectiles. CAUTION: Build at your own risk. This is another hazardous, perilous project from MAKE Volume 35.
Cook up a solid-fuel rocket engine and let it fly, if you have the DIY right stuff.
Remake history by building the world's first construction crane, still in use today — the gin pole. In antiquity, the only way to raise a heavy object was to put a rope on it, climb a ladder, and pull — or if you had enough time, build a ramp. Then the Greeks put a pulley on a pole, and the sky was the limit.
Build your own tripwire security system.
PC Load Letter?! Over 200 useful parts for free!
Drawdio is a simple electronic sound synthesizer build onto a pencil! Designed by Jay Silver, then a student in the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab, the Drawdio circuit plays a musical tone with a frequency that varies based on the resistance between two points. The wire wrapped around the pencil handle is one point, and the pencil lead itself is another. When you hold Drawdio in your hand, your body becomes part of the resistive loop, and you can do all kinds of fun tricks, like draw yourself a piano and play a little tune!
RFID (radio-frequency identification) systems are all around us.
Here's how to plug hobby servos straight into your smartphone and control almost anything with a fingertip. Slick! A fun and easy robotics project from MAKE Volume 34.
