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DPRG trebuchet

It looks like the Dallas Personal Robotics Group (DPRG) would make a great team for our MAKEcation trebuchet challenge. Watch the video as a homegrown month-old squash gets squashed! Who said the DPRG only made robots? More about the DPRG Related: Our final main event for MAKEcation 2009 is our “Family Challenge,” as in the […]

Skateboard stools

Skateboard stools

I spotted these nifty stools on the Inhabitat blog and immediately had two thoughts — these are super cool(!), and there’s gotta be a way to use the 6 or so skateboards scattered in my yard to make one myself (or a close facsimile thereof). After these thoughts, I immediately went to the maker’s website […]

Infernal machines as high art

Infernal machines as high art

Disclaimer: We at the MAKE blog do not advocate the construction or operation of chariots with giant whirling blades to chop people into bits, even if they are very rude. Nor, in general, do we like to celebrate the creation of unstoppable killing machines. Or even stoppable ones, for that matter. But we’re prepared to […]