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Archive: Weekend Projects
May 2, 2008
Weekend Project: Build an Ornithopter
An ornithopter is an aircraft that flies by flapping its wings! Here is a simple monoplane design powered by a rubber band. It's motion is similar to a bird in flight.
To download Build an Ornithopter MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes.
Check out the Build and Ornithopter article MAKE 08 "Build and Ornithopter" & You can see that in our digital edition.
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May 2, 2008 07:00 AM
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April 25, 2008
Weekend Project: Mousetrap Powered Vehicle
Vroom! Power a balsa wood vehicle from the energy of a mousetrap! Fun and easy project! No mice were harmed during the filming of this video.
To download Mousetrap Powered Vehicle MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes.
Posted by KipKay |
Apr 25, 2008 06:00 AM
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April 18, 2008
Weekend Project: Kitchen Floor Vacuum Former
From take-out coffee lids to Stormtrooper costumes, vacuum formed plastic is everywhere. Now you can build your own for thousands less than professional models and still make cool 3D objects!
To download Kitchen Floor Vacuum Former MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes.
Check out the Kitchen Floor Vacuum Former MAKE 11 "Kitchen Floor Vacuum Former" & You can see that in our digital edition.
Posted by KipKay |
Apr 18, 2008 07:00 AM
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April 11, 2008
Weekend Project: Transistorize Your iPod
Get vintage sounds from time-warp radio with this fun "back to the future" project. Top 40 songs from the 70's don't sound the same on big stereo systems or headphones but they will now!
To download Transistorize Your iPod MP4 click here ------ or subscribe in iTunes.
Check out the Transitorize Your iPod MAKE 13 "Transisorize Your iPod" & you can see that in our digital edition.
Posted by KipKay |
Apr 11, 2008 07:00 AM
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April 4, 2008
Weekend Project: Telekinetic Pen
Do you like magic tricks? Here's a cool project that turns an ordinary Sharpie into a Telekinetic Pen! It shivers at your very command...or does it?
To download Telekinetic Pen MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes.
Check out the MAKE 13 "Telekinetic Pen" & You can see that in our digital edition.
Posted by KipKay |
Apr 4, 2008 07:00 AM
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March 28, 2008
Weekend Project: Explosion Engine
Ever wonder what goes on inside the engine of your car? Can you imagine at 5000 rpm there are 80+ explosions every second? Here's a DIY internal combustion engine that'll show what all that noise is about!
To download Explosion Engine MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes.
Check out the Explosion EngineMAKE 13 "Explosion Engine" & You can see that in our digital edition.
Posted by KipKay |
Mar 28, 2008 07:00 AM
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March 22, 2008
Joule Thief goes "steampunk"
The Joule Thief madness continues, here used in a project to power an "on phone" status light/headset hook.
Related:
- More Joule Thief fun
- A cuddlier joule thief
- Make a Joule Thief - Weekend Projects Video Podcast
- The Joule Thief
Posted by Gareth Branwyn |
Mar 22, 2008 08:00 PM
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March 21, 2008
Weekend Project: Make a fireball shooter
Make a flaming fireball shooter just like magicians use. Save $$ and MAKE your own! Awesome pyrotechnics effect!
To download the fire shooter MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes.
A modified version of Diminutive Balls of FireMAKE 13 "Balls of Fire" & You can see that in our digital edition.
Posted by KipKay |
Mar 21, 2008 11:50 AM
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March 15, 2008
Weekend Project: Phaser blasted alarm clock!
Blast your alarm clock with a classic Sega Light Phaser! Hack an old toy and your alarm clock to make this gratifying wake up call...
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From the pages of MAKE - Project: Gun-Operated Alarm Clock - Hack a retro gaming light gun with tilt switches to control a vintage digital clock radio. When the alarm wakes you up, grab the gun and kill it off! Read it in the MAKE digital edition.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Mar 15, 2008 11:00 AM
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Weekend Project: Phaser blasted alarm clock! (PDF)
You saw the video and here's the PDF! Hack a retro gaming light gun with some tilt switches to control a vintage digital clock radio. After the alarm wakes you up, you can grab the gun and kill it off. Isn't that what you've always dreamed of doing?
Clock radios are everyday hated devices that designers seem to ignore, judging by how little their features and user interfaces have changed. This project adds a new capability, letting would-be sleepyheads enjoy a human-machine interaction of a different sort. Don't worry, we're not going to connect your clock to an MP3 player and play mellow New Age sounds. We're going to shoot the alarm off. With a gun. Wake-up time is now payback time.
We'll base the project around a digital clock radio and a light gun for gaming; huge selections of both of these are available inexpensively second-hand, with many beautiful and well-designed examples. To enable our FPSI (First Person Shooter Interface), we'll outfit the gun with five tilt sensors, arranged at different angles on a small circuit board. A cable tethers the gun to the clock and carries your tilt and trigger signals to the clock's time and alarm control button contacts. - PDF & Instructable.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Mar 15, 2008 10:59 AM
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March 8, 2008
Weekend Project: Make a PDA Notebook
Forget the Macbook air, there's a new lightweight portable in town - Join our new video Maker (Kip Kay) as he shows you how to turn a modified hardback book in to a PDA powered "laptop" with keyboard. MAKE 07 "Palm Pilot Notebook" & check it out in our digital edition too.
[Editor's note: Additional formats are up! MP4 (iPod/iPhone/PSP/etc...) - Quicktime (MOV) - Please subscribe in iTunes and let us know if these are working properly and there's a PDF too.
And lastly, we'd like to welcome RadioShack as a MAKE sponsor!
Posted by KipKay |
Mar 8, 2008 01:00 PM
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February 1, 2008
Single Speed Bike - Best of Weekend Projects
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Another bit of archived awesomeness from the Weekend Project vault!
Make your bike into a single speed hipster bike! This week Dave Neff joins me to take some old broken bikes and mash them up into a new radical ride. Everbody's experience will be different, but we rebuilt the bottom bracket, put new wheels on, chopped and flipped the handlebars, took off one of the front chain rings and put on a single speed bmx-style gear in the back. We did this because we made a bike out of parts found in the trash, but if you've got a working ten speed, you can just strip the derailleur, chop and flip the handlebars and switch out the back gears for a single speed freewheel gear.
Single speed bikes are great for folks who live in a moderately flat city. There are less parts to get stolen and less parts to break.
Don't miss a single video! You can get the Make: Video Podcast and PDFcast downloaded automatically by subscribing in itunes. - Link
Posted by Bre Pettis |
Feb 1, 2008 08:00 AM
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January 29, 2008
Lovesick Larry
Everyone say say hi to Lovesick Larry. He's a sympathy doll made by Flickr user "brooklyn sunset":
We were inspired by Bre's Sympathy Doll project in his Weekend Projects podcast. We got out our 40 yr old Singer sewing machine and used my grandpa's old Pendleton robe for sentimental value and we now have Lovesick Larry.
Truly heartwarming - makes us appreciate red flannel a whole lot more.
Lovesick Larry on Flickr -Link
Related:
Make a Sympathy Doll - Weekend Projects PDFcast - Link
Posted by Collin Cunningham |
Jan 29, 2008 07:40 AM
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January 25, 2008
Intro to the Arrrr-duino - Best of Weekend Projects
The retro Weekend Project-o-thon continues!
Joe Grand and Bre Pettis join forces to become the Awesome Electronics Workshop and introduce you to the Arrr-duino! In this tutorial, you'll learn the basics of programming and setting up your arduino. Don't have one yet? You can get them in the Make: Store or build you're own! - Subscribe Link
Arduino in the Make: Store - Link
Posted by Bre Pettis |
Jan 25, 2008 08:00 AM
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January 18, 2008
Dorkbot DC/Make: DC event wrap-up
The first Dorkbot DC/Make: DC project event was held on Wednesday at the Marian Koshland Science Museum in Northwest DC. This was the inaugural meeting of Make: DC, a projects building group inspired by MAKE magazine. We'll be doing a series of joint Dorkbot/Make: DC events in the future. For this first event, we made LED cubes, inspired by Bre's Pocket LED Cube Weekend Podcast. I have more pictures and info on Street Tech:
One bit of added excitement to our evening was the ever-present fear that we might set off the fire alarm system which would have killed power to the *entire* building. We were told about the room's overly-sensitive alarm system -- blinking its status-light taunts right above our heads and over one of our work tables -- just as dozens of adorable Dorks were pouring into the place, 600-degree firesticks in hand. We nervously moved some tables and scrounged up a bladed fan to push the fumes around. As probably 20 irons fired up and that heady, fluxy aroma of solder filled the air, we held our collective breath. I (only half-jokingly) told folks with cameras to have them at the ready so that, when the power went out, as the building filed out into the cold, dark streets, we could at least blog the whole sordid business ("DC Dorks Darken City Block"). Miraculously, no buildings were harmed in the making of our little LED cubes and a great time was had by all (at least as far as I could smell... er tell).
This event was co-sponsored by The Maker Store. A million thanks to Dan, Rob, Sherry and everyone at Maker Media for their help and support.
First Dorkbot DC/Make: DC Joint Project Event - Link
Posted by Gareth Branwyn |
Jan 18, 2008 12:58 PM
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Rodent Powered Nightlight - Best of Weekend Projects
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The Weekend Projects Podcast Reruns continue with the Rodent Powered Nightlight! This was a project inspired by the writing of William Gurstelle. I've done a lot of his projects and they're always awesome!
Make sure to check out the PDF for more detailed instructions!
Posted by Bre Pettis |
Jan 18, 2008 08:00 AM
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January 11, 2008
Shovercraft - Best of Weekend Projects
Homemade hovercrafts + shuffleboard = shovercraft!
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While Bre takes a break, you get to revisit the best of Weekend Projects!
Get your motors running, put your safety helmet, ear protection and safety glasses on, steady your fire extinguishers and prop open your first aid kit... Now you're ready for he ultimate in diy sports - Shovercraft! Combining all the thrills of a personal hovercraft with the targeting challenges of shuffleboard, shovercraft is the ultimate in frictionless fun!
Go download the instructions and make your own. I can't wait until people start posting their hovercrafts to the make flickr pool!
Of course if you subscribe in itunes, the videos get downloaded automatically for you, no muss no fuss. You can browse all the Make: videos on blip.tv and youtube at your leisure!
Posted by Bre Pettis |
Jan 11, 2008 08:00 AM
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January 6, 2008
End of the weekend - Watch the Weekend Projects Podcast!
If you didn't get a chance to try out laser graffiti, make sure to watch this week's weekend project and start pulling your resources together to get a laser, computer, projector, and go out and create some awesome light graffiti! - Video Link
If you decide to do it, you'll want to check out the documentation! - PDF Link
Subscribe and get podcasts like this in itunes automatically! - Subscribe Link
More laser tag vids from youtube after the jump!
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Jan 6, 2008 01:43 PM
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January 4, 2008
Learn How To Do Laser Graffiti - Weekend Projects Podcast
This weekend, learn how to draw on buildings. Laser Tagging is a non-destructive way of using a laser, video camera, computer and projector to apply graffiti to buildings! It's a lot of fun!
You'll see the GRL Vienna guys Michael Zeltner and Florian Frühauf who rocked Berlin with 5500 lumens of laser graffiti awesomeness. They would like to extend a thanks to Theo Watson and Evan Roth and James Powderly of GRL who came up with the idea, first implemented it and put it out there in the public domain.
The GRL NYC peeps recently put out a tutorial on starting your own GRL. - Link
Lasers, like power tools, can be dangerous. You're responsible for your own safety!
Posted by Bre Pettis |
Jan 4, 2008 10:00 AM
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Learn How To Do Laser Graffiti - Weekend Projects PDFcast
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This week download the Weekend Projects PDF to get all the details for creating graffiti on buildings! PDF Link
Posted by Bre Pettis |
Jan 4, 2008 09:32 AM
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