Part of this problem, posed by one Ernst Straus in 1952, is to design a polygonal room lined with mirrors having at least two points such that any ray starting at one point can reflect around the room forever without hitting the other point, and vice versa. One such room, shown above, was demonstrated by […]
Welcome to Make It Last, a project build series and contest, sponsored by Microchip and Energizer. Over the coming months, we’re going to cover a series of three project builds, demonstrating some of the finer points of low-power microcontroller design. We’re hoping these will be fun, informative projects and a good introduction to using “bare” […]
Giant for a model, anyway. At 4′ tall it’s only 1/20th the size of a “real” one, and still not even close to Disney World’s “almost life size” version. Still, just try offering Disney what eBay seller komonac is asking for his and see what they say. [via Boing & Boing, LLP]
And we’re back with our sixteenth installment of Your Comments. Here are our favorites from the past week, from Make: Online, our Facebook page, and Twitter. MadRat speculates about what the creators think of people making fire with Ikea products: I always wonder what the owners, designers and factory workers think when they see their […]
MAKE subscriber Michael Zenner wrote in to tell us about the DIY Book Scanner community forums.
Why scratch out a game of naughts and crosses on the sidewalk when you can use a computer-controlled mill to carve a board and pieces out of solid billet aluminum and bronze? Thingiverse user hugomatic knows the answer to that question, whatever it may be.
And we’re back with our fifteenth installment of Your Comments. Here are our favorites from the past week, from Make: Online, our Facebook page, and Twitter. paulbo shared How-To: Build an official BBC Dalek, ca 1973: We spent a relaxing Saturday a few weeks ago putting together a remote control Dalek using stuff out of […]
