Flashback: Toy Batcopter
Make your own antique toy-inspired paper batcopter with this fun CRAFT tutorial!
Kids & Family
Father/Son Sugar Rocket Madness
Earlier this month we followed William Gurstelle’s instructions to build the Homemade Sugar Rockets featured in MAKE Volume 35 (The Danger Issue). We failed, learned, failed some more, learned some more, and through persistence had great success and improved the recipe to our liking, and hopefully to yours, too. I hope the following notes on the process will help you with this fast, easy, and super-fun project.
How-To: Delorean Push Car
For those who will be pushing around tiny passengers this halloween, here’s a brilliant idea from Cory Newton-Smith to convert an ordinary push car into an amazingly accurate Delorean time machine from Back To The Future for her own little Marty McFly.
LED CHUTIES Come to Maker Faire
Eureka! LED CHUTIES are born one rainy day, from minds of Paul and Lee at Soldering Sunday.
Hauntbox Prop Controller
The barrier between the average Joe and a fully automated haunted house just got lowered.
Custom Skulls For Your Halloween Lego Creations
Guy Himber’s latest project is a Kickstarter campaign to manufacture Lego-compatible skulls, just the thing for that Skelator model you’ve been dreaming of.
How Would you Catch a Pumpkin Thief?
I’m looking for ways to trick our pumpkins thieves next time (if they should be so bold!) Please post in the comments ways you would recommend making anyone trying to take off with our pumpkins, um, change their minds. It should be simple and relatively inexpensive to do if possible. Oh yeah, and safe
