We’ve covered plenty of trebuchet designs here on MAKE:Blog, no relatively lower tech torsion catapult how-to’s though. Well here’s a video and instructable running through construction of a large-scale version – Link Related: Weekend Projects: Make a trebuchet – Link
This would make a great upgrade to that pot & pan drumkit – For at least 3 years now, we have been trying to get our folk dance teachers to teach us an Italian Tarantella. Their main excuse not to do so has always been “But we need tambourines then, …” . Because we do […]
What do you give to the friend that has everything? My friend Rob’s birthday was coming up and a few of us got together to throw him a surprise party. Since Rob has been running a with a streak of high-voltage projects these past few months, what could be more appropriate than incorporating some extra […]
MP4 Video | QT Video | HD | Subscribe in iTunes This week’s CRAFT Video Podcast is the second in a two part series on how to make intarsia/stranded knitting pattern from an image in Photoshop. We’ll go from the gridded pattern we made last week to a knitted back panel for the sweater using […]
This DIY project shows you how to build a morning latte printer using a x-y flatbed plotter (Philips 8155) that the author found on eBay. Pretty cool hack with a nice instruction set at the link below. Latte art printing machine – how to build one! [via], Link
This is an interesting DIY tachometer with some unusual features for the R/C enthusiast. Generally tachometer is a gauge to measure rotation speed of any rotating things. In RC hobby tachometer is the instrument for measuring and monitoring propeller revolutions per minute (RPM). This tachometer has some additional functionality like: thrust, pitch speed and power […]
I bought one of these types of flashlights while back, but making one would have been a lot cooler. This version has a clear plastic housing so you can see all the magnets and wires and diodes, oh my! The web site has a lot of great pictures of the build, and all the information […]
