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MAKE Volume 23 is on newsstands now! In this special GADGETS issue,
we show you how to make a menagerie of delightful machines: a
miniature electronic Whac-a-Mole arcade game, a tiny but mighty
see-through audio amplifier, a magic mirror that contains an
interactive animated soothsayer, a self-balancing one-wheeled
Gyrocar, and the Most Useless Machine — the
creepy mechanical box whose only purpose is to turn itself off (as
seen on The Colbert Report!). Plus: how Intellectual Ventures made
their incredible laser targeting mosquito zapper, how to use the
industrial-strength microcontrollers called PLCs, and a lot more.
Project highlights in MAKE Volume 23 include: The Most Useless
Machine Gyrocar Squelette, the Bare-Bones Amplifier Magic Mirror
Solar Car ...
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MAKE Volume 23: Gadgets
MAKE Volume 23 is on newsstands now! In this special GADGETS issue,
we show you how to make a menagerie of delightful machines: a
miniature electronic Whac-a-Mole arcade game, a tiny but mighty
see-through audio amplifier, a magic mirror that contains an
interactive animated soothsayer, a self-balancing one-wheeled
Gyrocar, and the Most Useless Machine — the
creepy mechanical box whose only purpose is to turn itself off (as
seen on The Colbert Report!). Plus: how Intellectual Ventures made
their incredible laser targeting mosquito zapper, how to use the
industrial-strength microcontrollers called PLCs, and a lot more.
Project highlights in MAKE Volume 23 include: The Most Useless
Machine Gyrocar Squelette, the Bare-Bones Amplifier Magic Mirror
Solar Car Subwoof...
Make a Pennywhistle from Pennies
The latest issue of MAKE, Volume 23, features another one of Tom
Parker's whimsical projects made from coins. The idea behind his
column, Make: Money, is to show how to make useful objects out of
coins (and a few other scrap items) that cost less than the price
of a similar mass-produced item. In previous issues, Tom has made
shirt buttons, a fishing lure, a mouse trap, a chess set, salt
& pepper shakers, pinhole glasses, a bottle opener, and wind
chimes out of coins. In this issue, Tom shows...
Hobbit door
Craig Smith of South Milwaukee wrote in to share his excellent
hobbit door he built in his fence: At my backyard fence to the
alley, I did something a bit different for the gate; A Hobbit door.
The fence panels had higher and lower stringers added so the curved
cut would allow the small segments of pickets to remain fastened. I
spent a few days bending green treated 1X2s to create a trim around
the curved opening in the fence. The gate (door) was made like a
standard wooden gate, but with a 6' diameter roundness to it. The
far left green door board is actually a part of the fence, as that
creates a straight vertical hinge point for a pair of heavy-duty
hinge...
How-To: Homebrew Club-Mate (from MAKE Volume 23)
If you aren't savvy to the phenomenon that is Club-Mate, it's a
caffeinated tea beverage brewed in Germany that's been adopted by
the hacker scene in that country as their official
staying-up-late-and-coding beverage. It's become so popular that
it's been imported to the U.S. where it fetches prices as high as
$10 a bottle. Minneapolis maker Dave Toews (pronounced TAVES)
bought a case of the stuff, but decided he wanted to create a more
economical alternative using Club-Mate's sig...
Weekend Project: Magic Photo Cube
Make a fun and easy desktop cube that magically reveals photos.
Thanks go to Ken Wade for the original article in MAKE Volume 21.
To download The Magic Photo Cube video click here and subscribe in
iTunes. Check out the complete Magic Photo Cube article in MAKE
Volume 21 and you can see that in our Digital Edition. Read more |
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