This Sunday is Easter, so here are some MAKE-like activities involving eggs! Homemade easter egg anemometer. HOW TO – Easter Eggs dyed with onion skins. HOW TO – Make Ukrainian Easter Eggs. Laser-egg-etching. Egg art from Makers. Egg City. Naturally dyed Easter eggs. Electrocuting Peeps.
Make a flaming fireball shooter just like magicians use. Save $$ and MAKE your own! Awesome pyrotechnics effect! To download the fire shooter MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes. A modified version of Diminutive Balls of FireMAKE 13 “Balls of Fire” & You can see that in our digital edition.
A beer dispensing slot machine, what could be better? OK, money isn’t a bad alternative, but this was built for the annual Burning Man festival, and it is really hot in the Nevada desert. Burning Man is a great place to find inspiration for projects because so many creative and resourceful people create interactive artwork […]
Emeka sent in this nice DIY battery backup for your computer, or any other device. The article is based on 220v, but could easily be adapted for 110v. South Africans, as elsewhere in Africa are experiencing almost daily – “load-shedding”. The country cannot meet the demand for electricity resulting in daily scheduled power-outages nationwide. Make […]
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories has a fantastic tutorial on how to make these little light-up origami balloons by actually tracing the circuit paths on the origami paper itself. I can imagine a driveway path illuminated with such things, or perhaps just a big pile of them, happily glowing. Related: HOW TO – Make LED Throwies
From the MAKE Flickr pool Flickr member fdecomite built an LED ring light on perfboard and took some gorgeous macro shots with it! Here’s another design using SMD parts – HOW TO – LED Ring Light for Cameras and Magnifying Glasses Color temperature seems a pretty important variable for this type of project – anyone […]
15 bucks may not seem too steep for one hanger – but if you’re planning to display several guitars, that price tag becomes an issue. Check out this guitar hanger how-to for a DIY alternative. Note – You may wish too add a couple rubber grommets (or even rubber bands) as end caps for added […]
