From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Ted Major built this sweet kid-sized tipi! For this project, I used the following materials: 6 six-foot bamboo garden stakes (on clearance to make room for more Xmas stuff in September) 4 x 15 canvas dropcloth (a 4 x 9 would have worked) Double sided carpet tape Grommets 1/8″ […]
This is part 8 of an ~8-part series I’m doing on bike-powered devices. If you’ve got a link to another device that should be included or a better-documented version of any of these, comment below. I learned about most of these devices through the old-news Innovate or Die contest. Wow: go pedals. I’m in awe […]
Make: TV host John Edgar Park writes on his blog: This beast is on the Make: television set to make our PVC pipe version feel bad. It was built by a local maker (not sure of his name), and it’s a thing of beauty. All four tanks dump their air at once when you pull […]
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Boss Sauce writes- A smoker made out of a microwave oven case. I grabbed the abandoned microwave off a street corner for harvesting components, but that two chamber layout and heavy construction got me a’thinking– looks like the diagram of Alton Brown’s cardboard box smoker. There likely one more weekend […]
This homebrew LaserTag game uses a cheap laser pointer combined with a toy gun and a PIC16F628A microcontroller that connects up to a piezo transducer which is used for producing various beeps. The 5 pin header plug at the bottom of the device is used to connect to a programmer for in-circuit programming. Check out […]
The “Franklinator” is a circuit-bent version of the “Franklin the Turtle 1-2-3 Tri-Language Learner” toy, with really nice attention to detail when adding additional switches to this device. Unfortunately, there’s no video of it in action, but the site has some great photos of the finished instrument. Franklinator
I love these how-to videos made by the Makers. Josh Culley has been making these metal figures for years, and now you can try to make them too! [Thanks Josh] More about Welding Metal figurines
