Make your own paper by recycling newspaper or old paper. Embellish them with pressed flower petals or add some color with crushed grass. From this, you’ll be able to create all kinds of neat craft projects like handmade journals or cards. Just in time for handmade holiday gifts. Thanks Rick! Link.
Posted by nataliezdrieu | Monday October 31st, 2005 12:14 PM
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Mark writes “Here’s how to convert old obsolete 1950′s era Polaroid 110a cameras into semi-proffesional, full manual, large format work horses. The site describes the process of converting these cheap old cameras to accept easily available modern pack film. There are lo-fi methods and is mainly directed toward poor starving photographers or college students who can not afford a Litman 45 single.” Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Monday October 31st, 2005 6:28 AM
Categories: DIY Projects, Imaging | 2 Comments
Detailed story of making a creepy Halloween-themed jello and pudding dessert in an acquarium. Made from all sorts of gummy worms, gummy salamanders, candy eye balls, licorice and lips – along with 19 packs of Jello. It’s so gross looking, I want to make this. Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Monday October 31st, 2005 6:27 AM
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Rick writes “A great ‘how to’ making steam engines, (although most are run on compressed air). All you need to know from simple single cylinder models to V twins and more. A neat project in time for the holiday season – What a great present.” Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Monday October 31st, 2005 6:26 AM
Categories: DIY Projects, Science | 1 Comment
Giles writes “Step by step, do it yourself, super 8 telecine – How to make Super 8 movies into digital files for the cost of an old projector, a big lens and some bits from the local electronics store!” Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Monday October 31st, 2005 6:26 AM
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Rick writes “Animated examples of many different types of internal combustion and heat engine along with an explanation of how they work. My favorite is the Wankel engine (The Wankel a triangular rotor incorporating a central ring gear is driven around a fixed pinion within an oblong chamber). Somehow it just shouldn’t work.” Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Monday October 31st, 2005 6:24 AM
Categories: Science | 3 Comments
Good article by Andy Oram on oreillynet “Modding is childish and eccentric and deeply serious. People are investing major chunks of disposable income and (astonishingly, in a flat-out work-obsessed society where no one has time) untold hours in modding. It’s one of the fastest up-and-coming social trends in the United States.” Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Monday October 31st, 2005 6:24 AM
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Here’s how to add a javascript driven cursor following flying bat to your pages. You can download the 2.6kb zip archive, containing all you need and get startet…Good for Halloween, or if you have a goth site or something. Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Monday October 31st, 2005 6:23 AM
Categories: Halloween, Holiday projects | No Comments
Rick writes “Here are some examples of Stirling engines – An online shop for many model engines. But often existing products are the inspiration for our own production efforts. Worth a look for anyone interested in Stirling or steam engines.” Link. In MAKE 04 we have an interview with Dean Kamen who’s also cooking up a Stirling engine.
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Monday October 31st, 2005 6:20 AM
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Candy Addict writes “A blog from The National Association of Manufacturers where they post videos of things being manufactured commercially. There are some really interesting videos!” Here’s a post (with video) on how the Just Born candy company makes their treats. Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Sunday October 30th, 2005 8:25 AM
Categories: Halloween, How it's made | 1 Comment
Exclusively in the Maker Shed, this updated Redpark Breakout Pack for Arduino and iOS makes interfacing your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with the real world easy! This bundle includes the new RedPark TTL Cable for iOS so a TTL adapter (and soldering) is no longer required.
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