During Maker Faire, we had a RFID enabled flame shooting trampoline – the Maker, Mikey Sklar and I talked a bit about fire art and how electronics could be integrated – and that bring us to Plasma Pong, it’s a remake of pong, but it has plasma fluid, it’s really pretty to watch, I’m thinking […]
Here’s a video of a mini Gaussian gun in action – [via] – Link. We show you how to build your own in MAKE 01 – Gauss Rifle. A linear accelerator for studying high-energy physics costs around $5 billion. But you can make one for about 30 bucks with four strong magnets, a wooden ruler, […]
James shows you how to watch TV on a Macbook & a Slingbox – “I decided to make a project out of getting Slingbox setup today. Not knowing for sure if it would work on OSX, I got everything setup using only OSX and Parallels VM running Windows XP. This took about 2 hours to […]
Stencil revolution shows you how to make a stencil from a color photo, using Photoshop GiMP/GiMPShop will work as well – [via] Link.
Michael writes in with a simple Sketchup he did to plan out a bookcase construction – “Here are some pictures of my recently built bookcase. The Bottom of the page has the Google Sketchup plan I made, and a link to download it.” – Link. Also, check out his automated cat food feeder project.
Alex sent in this short “make a record” article from Germany, it looks like they reproduced a record and the cloned copy lasts around 2 days, if anyone knows anything more about this, let us know, looks like a good project – Link & translated site.
Philo made a great wall following LEGO bot, he writes – “As a direct application to my GP2D12 distance sensor, I built this wall follower. Its base is the Constructopedia RoverBot, I only added a turret bearing the sensor. The trick here is to direct sensor beam 45° away to also detect walls in front […]
