The man behind the world's largest Tesla coil (the 30,000-watt Electrum) is once again upping the ante on machine-generated lightning. Greg Leyh and his group Lightning On Demand (LOD) have...
Posted by Sabrina Merlo | Wednesday November 16th, 2011 9:00 PM
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Sculptor, kinetic artist, and longtime MAKE pal Alan Rorie is back with this beautiful "pressure door" built for a "Nautilus" art car project commissioned from San Francisco art collective Five...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Wednesday November 16th, 2011 1:00 PM
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Aerogels are fascinating materials, with lots of interesting and, frankly, amazing properties, but they are not easy to make. These days, industrial manufacture with an eye towards commercial applications, primarily...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Tuesday November 15th, 2011 6:00 AM
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More sci-fi cosplay badness from prop-maker, costumer, and MAKE pal Shawn Thorsson. I haven't played Dead Space 2, yet, but I enjoyed the first one, and I have to say...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Tuesday October 25th, 2011 7:30 PM
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Lego builder Guy Himber needed to play the piano 2,000 times in GoW3 to earn an award. However, that didn’t sound like much fun so he created a Lego robot...
Posted by John Baichtal | Monday October 24th, 2011 5:00 PM
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A liquid lens is pretty much exactly what it sounds like. The really cool thing about them is that, though they have no moving parts (unless you count the liquid...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Monday October 24th, 2011 6:00 AM
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I'm beginning to suspect an October conspiracy: While last week's Flickr pool submissions, on average, had a distinctly orange hue, this week they are distinctly black. And I'll give dollars...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Sunday October 16th, 2011 12:30 PM
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I was delighted to see the positive reaction to my latest video, Shrinkify Your Arduino Projects, which is based on a tutorial by MIT Media Lab’s High-Low Tech Group. Their...
Posted by Matt Richardson | Saturday October 15th, 2011 6:00 AM
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We've written about the work of instrument inventor and musician Bart Hopkin here on MAKE before. But I just spent a bunch of time on his site today and am...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Wednesday October 12th, 2011 9:00 PM
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The Uira Engine is a part of the guts from the Raygun Gothic Rocket Ship, which now resides in San Francisco's Embarcadero. For Maker Faire Bay Area 2011, the engine...
Posted by Michael Colombo | Tuesday October 11th, 2011 12:00 PM
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LA Photographer Eric Curry's series "American Pride and Passion" is just beautiful. Each piece is achieved using a very simple technique: The scene is staged in darkness, a camera positioned...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Friday October 7th, 2011 1:58 PM
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As I wrote about a month ago, one of the many unusual phenomena Ben Krasnow has produced in his garage is supercritical CO2. As you may recall, Ben machined a...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Wednesday October 5th, 2011 9:00 AM
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