This week, Friday, May 15, 12-noon PDT/3pm EDT, we’ll be joined by Ken Gracey and Jeff Ledger of Parallax. They’ll be talking to us about the latest products and happenings at Parallax, especially the upcoming all-night Unofficial Propeller Expo, on June 27-28, 2009. See my earlier post for details about the Expo. As always, we’ll […]
MAKE Advisory Board member Joe Grand got himself a T-Tech Quick Circuit 5000 PCB prototyping machine in the lab and has been messing around with using it to create PCB art. The third image is based on art by Neil Kronenberg, created for this year’s DEFCON conference, and the last image is by our very […]
Over in the Steampunk Workshop, Jake von Slatt has posted pics of a Wimshurst Influence Machine built by a MAKE reader, following Jake’s project piece in Volume 17. Nice job, Scott! He built his with more sectors on the disks, to make it even more zaptastic. Scott’s Wimshurst Machine! From MAKE magazine: Check out MAKE, […]
Does this hacker ever sleep? The prolific Jeri Ellsworth is at it again. Here, she builds a 52″ Etch a Sketch with the screen from a rear-projection TV, some tent poles, screen door pulleys, some cheap Harbor Freight drill motors, a golf tee (for the stylus), and some aluminum powder. They also designed a web […]
This makes me happier than I can tell you! It’s another family that spends their vacation/family time together making things. Steve Hoefer writes: Whenever a bunch of my family gets together it becomes readily apparent that most of us like to make stuff. And it just so happens that the first weekend of May a […]
Here’s a motorized mountainboard built by some mechanical engineering students from Colorado State. I love the hand-controller/horn cased inside of a hair dryer. A downloadable PDF has the build notes and parts list. Gadget Freak Case 140: Motorized Mountainboard
MAKE contributor Steve Lodefink has posted the details on the building of his recent cigar box guitar. Cigar Box Guitar Speaking of cigar boxes, check out this cool cigar box amp posted (sadly, with no additional info) on Cigar Box Nation (via Dinosaurs and Robots). More: See all of the cigar box projects on Make: […]
