While we’re on the subject of dastardly dangerous DIY, here’s a piece on how to turn a railroad spike into a rope dart, an ancient Chinese martial arts weapon. This video shows how a rope dart is used by a trained Kung Fu artist. Flailed around by someone who doesn’t know what s/he is doing […]
Inspired by Jake von Slatt and Datamancer’s steampunk keyboards, Quentin Regnier, Of Small Wonders… blog, fabricated this crazy input contraption, built from Remington typewriter parts. The Remington keyboard – Link Realted: A treasure-trove of MAKE steampunk coverage – Link
On the new Boing Boing Gadgets blog, helmed by the brilliant Joel Johnson, he has a link to a photography blog of Haiko Hebig. Hebig travels throughout Europe documenting the decaying corpse of Europe’s 20th century industrial infrastructure. Love the control room images. Endangered Machinery – Link
Amazing restoration of a 1937 wood-and-fabric airplane – Link.
We’ve blogged about the Robot Hut before, and I’d been there (the site) before, but I’m not sure I’d seen how much info there is on all of the builds for many of the bots in the Hut’s collection. And there’s a tour of the museum in 3D, too (and even a link on where […]
Chris writes – There was a good article in today’s Boston Globe on Steampunk. It doesn’t mention Make in the text, but many of the people and their projects have been featured on the Make Blog. It provides some good back story for the art form and lots of pointers to where to get more […]
Popular Mechanics 1924 – THE interesting little toy described in this article will, when placed in water, automatically dive and come to the surface again, repeating this performance, on an average, once a minute over a long period of time. It not only makes a very good toy for a boy but can be used […]
